Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish likewise consists of the villages of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is sometimes called Old Welwyn to differentiate it from the much newer negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some locals dislike the tip of inferiority or irrelevance that tends to be implied by the name "Old" as well as like Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, residents will frequently be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is usually reduced to just Welwyn. To avoid complication, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this met neighborhood resistance and also the suggestion was abandoned. The name is stemmed from Old English welig definition "willow", referring to the trees that snuggle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams with the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative kind of the word, and so is a lot more specifically equated as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is likely to mean merely "the willows". Through having its name originated from welig instead of sealh (the extra commonly mentioned 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 an origin with welig. The neighboring modern-day town of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the start of the 20th century.
