Knebworth

Built-Up Area: Knebworth
Parish/Community: Knebworth
District/Borough: North Hertfordshire
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°51'55"N 0°10'58"W
Eastings/Northings: 525216, 220111
OS Grid: TL252201
Mapcode Local: GBR J89.W18
Mapcode Global: VHGP6.SC5R

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Knebworth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Knebworth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Knebworth, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Herts, 3¼ miles SE. of Stevenage, 2737 ac., pop. 250; P.O.; and P.O., T.O., at sta., called Knebworth Station. Knebworth Park is the seat of Lord Lytton.

Knebworth in the Domesday Book

A village in Broadwater hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlords in 1066: King Edward; Eskil of Ware
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Eskil of Ware; Man, one
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Humphrey of Anneville (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 8 ¹⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £5 in 1070; £10 in 1086
- Households: 20 villagers; 2 smallholders; 3 cottagers; 4 slaves; 4 other
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (12 plough lands)
- Meadow: ¹⁄₂ plough
- Woodland: 1000 pigs
- Mills: 1, value 12 shillings

British Place Names

Knebworth, Hertfordshire

Knebworth is a village in Hertfordshire

Knebworth in historic gazetteers

Knebworth in the Domesday Book