Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, and incorporates the village of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, now called Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and also the Great North Road (consequently the A1, as well as currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously connected with countless significant outdoors rock and also pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final live efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a participation approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and also even more recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 executed to the biggest groups ever set up for a single performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.