Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the towns of Digswell as well as Oaklands. It is in some cases called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much more recent negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some residents do not like the idea of inferiority or irrelevance that tends to be implied by the tag "Old" and also like Welwyn Village. When claiming where they live, citizens will usually be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically reduced to simply Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were strategies to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this met regional resistance and also the idea was deserted. The name is stemmed from Old English welig significance "willow", describing the trees that nestle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams through the village. The name itself is a development from weligun, the dative type of the word, and so is extra exactly translated as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is most likely to suggest just "the willows". With having its name stemmed from welig rather than sealh (the extra generally pointed out Old English word for willow), Welwyn is possibly cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is derived 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 originally called 'High Welwyn' when very first developed at the beginning of the 20th century.
