Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a village and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the villages of Digswell and also Oaklands. It is sometimes called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the much more recent negotiation of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south, though some homeowners do not like the pointer of inferiority or irrelevance that tends to be implied by the tag "Old" and prefer Welwyn Village. When saying where they live, locals will usually be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is frequently reduced to simply Welwyn. To avoid complication, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this met with neighborhood resistance and the concept was deserted. The name is derived from Old English welig meaning "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves through the town. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative form of the word, therefore is much more exactly converted as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to indicate just "the willows". Through having its name originated from welig instead of sealh (the extra frequently mentioned Old English word for willow), Welwyn is perhaps 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 originally called 'High Welwyn' when first established at the start of the 20th century.
