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Knebworth is a village as well as 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 as well as Langley, and includes the town of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of people staying 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 initial village, now called Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent 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 Roadway (consequently the A1, as well as now the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been notoriously connected with various significant outdoors rock as well as pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen’s last real-time efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and also even more recently Robbie Williams, who for three evenings in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever before set up for a solitary performer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.