Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the villages of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is in some cases called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some homeowners dislike the idea of inability or irrelevance that often tends to be suggested by the tag "Old" and also favor Welwyn Town. When stating where they live, citizens will commonly be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is often shortened to merely Welwyn. To prevent confusion, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this met with regional resistance and the idea was abandoned. The name is originated from Old English welig significance "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves with the town. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative kind of the word, therefore is more specifically converted as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to mean simply "the willows". Via having its name originated from welig rather than sealh (the much more frequently cited Old English word for willow), Welwyn is perhaps cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is derived from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The nearby modern town of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the beginning of the 20th century.
