Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish likewise includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some locals do not like the idea of inability or irrelevance that has a tendency to be implied by the tag "Old" and prefer Welwyn Town. When stating where they live, citizens will typically be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is usually reduced to simply Welwyn. To avoid complication, there were plans to alter Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this met local resistance and also the idea was deserted. The name is originated from Old English welig significance "willow", describing the trees that nestle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves with the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative form of words, and so is extra precisely equated as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to suggest merely "the willows". Through having its name derived from welig as opposed to sealh (the much more typically mentioned Old English word for willow), Welwyn is potentially cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is originated from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The nearby modern-day village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was originally called 'High Welwyn' when very first created at the start of the 20th century.
