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Knebworth is a village as well as civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, instantly south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area in between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul’s Walden and also Langley, and incorporates the town of Knebworth, the tiny village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is evidence of individuals living in the location as far back as Neolithic times and it is pointed out in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is described as Chenepeworde (the ranch belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The original village, now known as Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Growth of the newer Knebworth town began 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 Road (ultimately the A1, and also now the B197 since the opening of the A1(M) motorway 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, up until prior to her death in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been notoriously related to various major open air rock as well as pop shows at Knebworth House, including Queen’s final online performance which took place on 9 August 1986 and attracted a presence approximated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million individuals for 2 evenings in 1996 and also more recently Robbie Williams, who for 3 evenings in August 2003 carried out to the biggest crowds ever before put together for a solitary performer. Data from UK Census 2011: All Residents: 5,247.