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Knebworth

Knebworth is a town and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, quickly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and also incorporates the village of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the area as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the ranch coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, now referred to as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Growth of the more recent Knebworth town began 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 (ultimately the A1, and also currently the B197 because the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens constructed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, until prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been notoriously associated with numerous significant outdoors rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final online performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and also drew an attendance approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three evenings in August 2003 executed to the biggest groups ever put together for a solitary entertainer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.