Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish likewise consists of the towns of Digswell and Oaklands. It is often called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some citizens do not like the suggestion of inability or irrelevance that tends to be indicated by the tag "Old" as well as like Welwyn Town. When stating where they live, citizens will typically be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically reduced to simply Welwyn. To prevent confusion, there were strategies to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this met local resistance and the suggestion was abandoned. The name is originated from Old English welig significance "willow", describing the trees that nestle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams with the town. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative kind of the word, therefore is much more precisely translated as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is most likely to indicate simply "the willows". Via having its name derived from welig instead of sealh (the much more frequently pointed out Old English word for willow), Welwyn is possibly cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is originated from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares a root with welig. The neighboring modern village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the beginning of the 20th century.
