from Afoot in Hertfordshire by Frank Dawes
Knebworth
Adjacent Parishes: Codicote, Datchworth, Hitchin, Kimpton, Letchworth, Shephall, St Pauls Walden, Stevenage, Welwyn
It is in Broadwater Hundred and the Hitchin Union
A small detached part of Letchworth parish, including Burley Farm, was transferred to Knebworth when Letchworth Garden City was created in the earky 20th century.
from Afoot
in Hertfordshire by Frank Dawes
Knebworth House and the Earl of Lytton
Star Series Post Card - this copy undated but an identical card posted in 1907
The house was described by Sir Henry Chauncy in 1700 as ‘a large pile of brick with a fair quadrangle in the middle of it, seated upon a dry hill, in a fair large park, stocked with the best deer in the country, excellent timber and well wooded and from thence you may behold a most lovely prospect to the East.’
The Commode Charles Dickens may have used at Knebworth House
from Hertfordshire
Privies
Knebworth House [from 1971
guide book]
Book: Knebworth - The Story of a Hertfordshire Village
Book: Knebworth - The Story of Our Village
Book: Tudor Churchwardens' Accounts
Book: Board Meetings in the Bath: The Knebworth House Story
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Knebworth Church - posted 1911
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Knebworth House - circa 1905
E Mummings, Hertford
There is a Knebworth House web site.
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| On the back of the postcard someone had written Harry MacDonald (a Yorkshire man) came south and brought this cottage in 1937 (rent 5/- a week & later brought it for £1,000) Built his model village over the years & also carved serious subjects. Died 23rd April 1971 and the cottage was demolished 1981. |
Memorial Inscriptions: A list of the memorials in the parish churchyard are on the Jeffery.Knaggs Homepage.
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extra postcard images. click on thumbnail picture |
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 Broadwater Knebworth |
 Knebworth House |
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See also Vital Records
If you know of other books, websites, etc, relating to this place, please tell me.
Page updated September 2006
