Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also incorporates the village of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals staying in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial town, now known as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new train station and the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and also now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, up until just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously related to countless major open air rock and also pop concerts at Knebworth House, including Queen's last online performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and drew a participation approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and even more just recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 executed to the biggest crowds ever before constructed for a solitary entertainer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
