Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, as well as encompasses the town of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is proof of people living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new railway station as well as the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, and also currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the engineer 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, till right before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been notoriously related to numerous major outdoors rock and pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final live performance which took place on 9 August 1986 as well as drew an attendance estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and also even more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three evenings in August 2003 executed to the biggest groups ever before put together for a solitary entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
