Knebworth
Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and includes the town of Knebworth, the tiny town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed 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 initial town, currently known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station as well as the Great North Road (subsequently the A1, as well as currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower house for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, till prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously connected with countless significant open air rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last real-time performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and attracted an attendance estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more just recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 nights in August 2003 carried out to the biggest groups ever set up for a single performer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Residents: 5,247.
