Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the villages of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much newer negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some residents dislike the tip of inferiority or irrelevance that often tends to be indicated by the name "Old" as well as prefer Welwyn Village. When claiming where they live, citizens will often be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is often reduced to just Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were plans to alter 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 definition "willow", referring to the trees that nestle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams with the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative type of the word, and so is extra specifically equated as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to imply merely "the willows". Via having its name derived from welig as opposed to sealh (the more typically cited Old English word for willow), Welwyn is possibly 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 town of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the start of the 20th century.
