Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell as well as Oaklands. It is sometimes called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much newer negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some residents do not like the pointer of inability or irrelevance that has a tendency to be suggested by the moniker "Old" and like Welwyn Town. When stating where they live, residents will usually be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically reduced to just Welwyn. To prevent complication, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this consulted with local resistance and also the idea was deserted. The name is stemmed from Old English welig significance "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it flows with the town. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative kind of the word, and so is much more precisely translated as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is likely to indicate just "the willows". Through having its name derived from welig rather than sealh (the much more commonly pointed out Old English word for willow), Welwyn is perhaps cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is originated from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The close-by contemporary village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first created at the beginning of the 20th century.