Knebworth, Hertfordshire

Description
Knebworth, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands 3 miles S of Stevenage and 83- NW of Hertford. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Steven-age, and a station on the main line of the G.N.R. Th& . parish contains also part of the hamlet of Broadwater, and the hamlets of Rustling End and Winter Green. Acreage, 2679; population, 382. The manor belonged to the Hoos and the Hotofts, from whom it passed to the Lyttons, and belongs now to the Earl of Lytton. Knebworth House, the seat of that nobleman, is a fine mansion originally erected in 1563, rebuilt in 1811, and extensively enlarged in 1883, standing amid extensive gardens and a well-wooded deer park of 120 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £336. Patron, the Earl of Lytton. The church is an ancient building of flint and brick, partly Norman and partly in the Early English style; consists of chancel with N chapel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower, and contains some ancient brasses and some handsome monuments of the Lyttons. There is a Congregational chapel, and there are five almshouses which are supported by the Earl of Lytton.