Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to differentiate it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some locals do not like the recommendation of inability or irrelevance that tends to be indicated by the moniker "Old" and also favor Welwyn Village. When saying where they live, citizens will typically be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is commonly reduced to simply Welwyn. To avoid complication, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this consulted with neighborhood resistance and also the suggestion was abandoned. The name is derived from Old English welig definition "willow", referring to the trees that snuggle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it moves via the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative form of words, therefore is more exactly converted as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is most likely to indicate merely "the willows". Via having its name stemmed from welig rather than sealh (the more commonly cited Old English word for willow), Welwyn is possibly cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is derived from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares an origin with welig. The close-by modern village of Digswell (around Welwyn North train station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when first established at the start of the 20th century.
