Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the towns of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some residents dislike the recommendation of inferiority or irrelevance that has a tendency to be suggested by the name "Old" as well as choose Welwyn Town. When claiming where they live, citizens will usually be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is frequently shortened to simply Welwyn. To stay clear of complication, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this met with regional resistance and the idea was deserted. The name is derived from Old English welig significance "willow", referring to the trees that nestle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves through the village. The name itself is a development 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 imply merely "the willows". Through having its name originated from welig as opposed to sealh (the a lot more frequently 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 a root with welig. The neighboring modern-day village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was originally called 'High Welwyn' when initial developed at the beginning of the 20th century.
