Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and also Langley, and also incorporates the town of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of people living in the location as far back as Neolithic times as well as it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial town, currently referred to as Old Knebworth, created around Knebworth House. Advancement of the more recent Knebworth town started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the new train station and the Great North Road (consequently the A1, as well as currently the B197 considering that 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 child, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, till prior to her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, considering that 1974, been notoriously associated with numerous significant open air rock and pop concerts at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's final online performance which occurred on 9 August 1986 as well as attracted a participation estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 and also more just recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 done to the largest groups ever put together for a single entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.