Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and incorporates the town of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is discussed 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 referred to 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 brand-new railway station and the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, as well as now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the architect 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, because 1974, been notoriously connected with numerous significant outdoors rock and pop shows at Knebworth House, including Queen's final live efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and also more lately Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 executed to the largest crowds ever before set up for a single entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.