Welwyn
Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally includes the towns of Digswell as well as Oaklands. It is occasionally called Old Welwyn to differentiate it from the much more recent settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some locals do not like the suggestion of inability or irrelevance that often tends to be indicated by the moniker "Old" and also like Welwyn Town. When saying where they live, locals will usually be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is typically shortened to just Welwyn. To prevent confusion, there were plans to alter Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 however this met regional resistance as well as the concept was deserted. The name is stemmed from Old English welig meaning "willow", describing the trees that nestle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it streams via the village. The name itself is an advancement from weligun, the dative kind of the word, therefore is more precisely converted as "at the willows", unlike nearby Willian which is likely to indicate just "the willows". Via having its name derived 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 neighboring modern town of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was originally called 'High Welwyn' when first established at the beginning of the 20th century.