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Knebworth is a town as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly 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, as well as includes the village of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, now referred to as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new train station and the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, as well as now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) motorway in 1962). At the turn of the century the engineer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her child, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until just before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been famously associated with countless major outdoors rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, including Queen’s last real-time efficiency which occurred on 9 August 1986 and also attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more recently Robbie Williams, who for three evenings in August 2003 performed to the largest groups ever set up for a solitary entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Residents: 5,247.