Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the villages of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to differentiate it from the much newer negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some homeowners dislike the recommendation of inferiority or irrelevance that often tends to be implied by the name "Old" as well as choose Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, locals will often be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is usually shortened to merely Welwyn. To avoid confusion, there were strategies to alter Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this met neighborhood resistance as well as the concept was abandoned. The name is stemmed from Old English welig meaning "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves via the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative form of words, and so is more specifically converted as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is most likely to suggest just "the willows". Via having its name stemmed from welig instead of sealh (the much more generally cited Old English word for willow), Welwyn is potentially cognate with Heligan in Cornwall whose name is originated from helygen, the Cornish word for willow that shares a root 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.