Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the towns of Digswell and Oaklands. It is in some cases called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, regarding a mile to the south, though some citizens do not like the recommendation of inability or irrelevance that has a tendency to be suggested by the moniker "Old" and favor Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, citizens will frequently be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is often reduced to merely Welwyn. To prevent confusion, there were plans to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this met with regional resistance as well as the idea was abandoned. The name is derived from Old English welig meaning "willow", referring to the trees that nestle on the banks of the River Mimram as it flows with the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative type of words, therefore is extra exactly translated as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is likely to imply merely "the willows". Through having its name derived from welig as opposed to sealh (the more frequently mentioned Old English word for willow), Welwyn is perhaps cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is stemmed from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The close-by modern-day village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when initial created at the beginning of the 20th century.
