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Knebworth |
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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 early 20th century.
Knebworth House
Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, &c 1829
[before the Victorian "improvements"]
There is an official Knebworth House web site.
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.’
Knebworth House [from 1971
guide book]
Knebworth House - circa 1905
E Mummings, Hertford
There is a Knebworth House web site.
from Afoot
in Hertfordshire by Frank Dawes
The Commode Charles Dickens may have used at Knebworth House
from Hertfordshire
Privies
Book: Knebworth - The Story of a Hertfordshire Village
Book: Knebworth - The Story of Our Village
Book: The Book of Woolmer Green
Book: Tudor Churchwardens' Accounts
Book: Board Meetings in the Bath: The Knebworth House Story
Book: Datchworth Tithe Accounts 1711-1747 includes references to the Rev William Lytton and William Robinson Lytton.
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Knebworth Church - posted 1911
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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. |
Book: The Book of Woolmer Green
Memorial Inscriptions: A list of the memorials in the parish churchyard are on the Jeffery.Knaggs Homepage.
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Extra post card 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.
| June 2010 | cross-reference to Datchwortj Thithe Accounts book | |
| August 2010 | Jones Views engraving |
