Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden as well as Langley, as well as incorporates the town of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is pointed out 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 initial town, currently referred to as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Growth of the more recent Knebworth town began 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 Road (ultimately the A1, and currently the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the engineer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until just before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been famously connected with numerous significant open air rock and pop performances at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time 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 and also even more recently Robbie Williams, that for three nights in August 2003 done to the biggest crowds ever set up for a solitary performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.
