Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the towns of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is in some cases called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some homeowners do not like the pointer of inability or irrelevance that often tends to be implied by the tag "Old" and also favor Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, citizens will typically be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is usually shortened to just Welwyn. To stay clear of complication, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this consulted with local resistance and the suggestion was deserted. The name is originated from Old English welig meaning "willow", referring to the trees that nestle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it flows via the town. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative type of the word, therefore is extra specifically translated as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to suggest simply "the willows". Via having its name stemmed from welig instead of sealh (the extra frequently 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 a root with welig. The close-by modern-day village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when initial developed at the start of the 20th century.