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Knebworth is a town as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately southern of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul’s Walden and Langley, as well as encompasses the town of Knebworth, the little town of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is proof of individuals residing in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed 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 original village, now called Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Growth of the more recent Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new train station as well as the Great North Road (ultimately the A1, and also currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the designer Edwin Lutyens built Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton additionally lived there, up until right before her death in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously associated with numerous major open air rock as well as pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen’s last real-time performance which happened on 9 August 1986 and attracted an attendance estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 as well as more recently Robbie Williams, that for three nights in August 2003 executed to the biggest crowds ever before set up for a single entertainer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Citizens: 5,247.