Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, as well as includes the town of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of people staying in the location as far back as Neolithic times and it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial town, now referred to as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the brand-new railway station as well as the Great North Road (consequently the A1, and also now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, till prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously associated with various significant open air rock and also pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final live efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more lately Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 done to the biggest crowds ever set up for a single performer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.