Knebworth is in Hertfordshire.
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of
Hertfordshire, England immediately south of Stevenage. The
civil parish covers an area between the villages of
Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St
Paul's Walden and Langley, and encompasses the village of
Knebworth, the small village of Old Knebworth and Knebworth
House.
There is evidence of people living in the area as far back as
Neolithic times and it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of
1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm
belonging to the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The
original village, now known as Old Knebworth, developed around
Knebworth House. Development 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 and the Great North
Road (subsequently the A1, and now the B197 since the opening
of the A1(M) motorway in 1962).
Knebworth has, since 1974, been famously associated with
numerous major open air rock and pop concerts which have been
held in the grounds of Knebworth House.
On 16 June 1990 the village was twinned with the commune of
Chatelaillon-Plage in France.


