Knebworth
Knebworth is a town 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, as well as incorporates the village of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of people staying in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, now known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station and the Great North Road (subsequently the A1, as well as now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, till prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously related to countless major open air rock and also pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last real-time performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as even more recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 executed to the biggest groups ever before assembled for a single performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Residents: 5,247.
