Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the towns of Digswell as well as Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some residents dislike the pointer of inability or irrelevance that often tends to be indicated by the moniker "Old" and also like Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, citizens will often be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is frequently reduced to simply Welwyn. To prevent complication, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 but this consulted with regional resistance as well as the suggestion was deserted. The name is originated from Old English welig definition "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it flows with the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative kind of words, therefore is much more precisely equated as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is most likely to indicate merely "the willows". Through having its name originated from welig rather than sealh (the extra frequently cited Old English word for willow), Welwyn is perhaps cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is stemmed from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares a root with welig. The neighboring contemporary village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was originally called 'High Welwyn' when very first established at the beginning of the 20th century.
