Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally consists of the towns of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some homeowners dislike the tip of inferiority or irrelevance that has a tendency to be implied by the name "Old" as well as favor Welwyn Village. When saying where they live, residents will typically be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically reduced to just Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this consulted with neighborhood resistance as well as the idea was deserted. The name is originated from Old English welig meaning "willow", referring to the trees that snuggle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams through the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative kind of the word, and so is much more exactly converted as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is most likely to mean simply "the willows". With having its name stemmed from welig as opposed to sealh (the a lot more generally mentioned Old English word for willow), Welwyn is potentially cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is derived from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The nearby modern town of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when very first created at the beginning of the 20th century.