Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also incorporates the village of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is proof of people residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times and 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 village, now referred to as Old Knebworth, established 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 train station as well as the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, and also now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the engineer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, till right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been notoriously associated with countless major open air rock as well as pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last live efficiency which took place on 9 August 1986 and drew a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 evenings in August 2003 performed to the largest crowds ever set up for a solitary entertainer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.