Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish likewise includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is in some cases called Old Welwyn to differentiate it from the much newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, regarding a mile to the south, though some locals do not like the recommendation of inability or irrelevance that tends to be indicated by the tag "Old" as well as like Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, locals will frequently be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is frequently reduced to just Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were strategies to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this met local resistance and also the suggestion 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 streams through the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative kind of words, therefore is much more exactly converted as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is most likely to suggest just "the willows". Through having its name originated from welig as opposed to sealh (the much more generally pointed out Old English word for willow), Welwyn is potentially cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is stemmed from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The neighboring modern village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when initial developed at the beginning of the 20th century.
