Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much more recent negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some homeowners do not like the suggestion of inferiority or irrelevance that often tends to be implied by the moniker "Old" as well as like Welwyn Village. When stating where they live, locals will often be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is commonly reduced to just Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this met with local resistance and the idea was abandoned. The name is originated from Old English welig definition "willow", referring to the trees that nestle on the banks of the River Mimram as it flows via the town. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative form of the word, and so is much more exactly converted as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is likely to mean just "the willows". Via having its name originated from welig instead of sealh (the extra 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 a root with welig. The neighboring modern-day village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first developed at the beginning of the 20th century.