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Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location in between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul’s Walden and also Langley, and also encompasses the town of Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of people living in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also it is stated in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the farm belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial town, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new railway station as well as the Great North Roadway (ultimately the A1, and now the B197 since 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 little girl, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, up until right before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, since 1974, been notoriously connected with numerous significant outdoors rock and also pop shows at Knebworth House, including Queen’s final live performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and also drew a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 nights in 1996 as well as more recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 nights in August 2003 performed to the biggest groups ever before constructed for a solitary performer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.