Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village 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 distinguish it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, regarding a mile to the south, though some homeowners dislike the idea of inability or irrelevance that often tends to be suggested by the name "Old" as well as choose Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, locals will often be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is usually reduced to merely Welwyn. To prevent complication, there were strategies to alter Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this consulted with neighborhood resistance as well as the idea was deserted. The name is stemmed from Old English welig significance "willow", referring to the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it flows with the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative type of words, and so is more precisely translated as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is most likely to indicate merely "the willows". Through having its name derived from welig rather than sealh (the more commonly 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 nearby modern town of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the start of the 20th century.
