Welwyn (population 8,425) is a town and also civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish additionally consists of the villages of Digswell as well as Oaklands. It is sometimes called Old Welwyn to identify it from the much newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, concerning a mile to the south, though some homeowners do not like the recommendation of inability or irrelevance that tends to be indicated by the moniker "Old" and also choose Welwyn Village. When stating where they live, citizens will commonly be asked, 'Welwyn or Welwyn Garden City?', as the latter's title is frequently reduced to merely Welwyn. To stay clear of confusion, there were strategies to change Welwyn's name to 'Welwyn Minster' in 1990 yet this met neighborhood resistance as well as the suggestion was deserted. The name is stemmed from Old English welig definition "willow", describing the trees that snuggle on the financial institutions of the River Mimram as it flows through the town. The name itself is a development from weligun, the dative type of the word, therefore is much more specifically converted as "at the willows", unlike close-by Willian which is likely to imply merely "the willows". Through having its name stemmed from welig instead of sealh (the more generally 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 nearby modern village of Digswell (around Welwyn North railway station) was originally called 'High Welwyn' when initial established at the beginning of the 20th century.