Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, as well as incorporates the town of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth and also Knebworth House. There is proof of people living in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the ranch coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, currently referred to as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Advancement of the newer Knebworth village 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, as well as now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, until right before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously associated with countless major outdoors rock and pop performances at Knebworth House, including Queen's final real-time performance which took place 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 nights in 1996 and more recently Robbie Williams, that for 3 nights in August 2003 carried out to the biggest crowds ever set up for a single performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.
