Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town as well as civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also consists of the towns of Digswell and Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some residents do not like the recommendation of inferiority or irrelevance that tends to be implied by the moniker "Old" and also favor Welwyn Village. When claiming where they live, residents will frequently be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically shortened to merely Welwyn. To prevent complication, there were plans to transform Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this met local resistance as well as the concept was deserted. The name is derived from Old English welig definition "willow", referring to the trees that snuggle on the banks of the River Mimram as it moves with the village. The name itself is an evolution from weligun, the dative type of the word, and so is much more specifically converted as "at the willows", unlike neighboring Willian which is likely to suggest merely "the willows". With having its name derived from welig rather than sealh (the a lot more frequently pointed out 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 close-by contemporary village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was initially called 'High Welwyn' when initial developed at the beginning of the 20th century.