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Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, promptly 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 encompasses the town of Knebworth, the little village of Old Knebworth as well as Knebworth House. There is evidence of people staying in the area as far back as Neolithic times and also 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 original town, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around Knebworth House. Development of the more recent Knebworth village began in the late 19th century centred a mile to the east of Old Knebworth on the new train station and also the Great North Roadway (subsequently the A1, and also currently the B197 given that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the millenium the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower home for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton likewise lived there, until just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously associated with various significant outdoors rock and pop shows at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen’s final real-time efficiency which occurred on 9 August 1986 and also drew a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 evenings in 1996 and also even more just recently Robbie Williams, who for three nights in August 2003 performed to the biggest groups ever put together for a single entertainer. Stats from UK Census 2011: All Locals: 5,247.