Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals residing in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, currently known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Advancement of the newer Knebworth town began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new railway station and the Great North Road (subsequently the A1, and now the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the engineer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, because 1974, been notoriously connected with countless major open air rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last live performance which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and also more just recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 done to the largest crowds ever before set up for a solitary entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Residents: 5,247.
