Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and also encompasses the town of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of people staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original town, currently called Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station as well as the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, and also currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, up until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously connected with many significant open air rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final live performance which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as drew an attendance estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 performed to the largest crowds ever set up for a single performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.
