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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish has also included from 1935 the village of Digswell and the hamlet of Oaklands. It is sometimes called "Old Welwyn" to distinguish it from the newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City which is situated about a mile to the south, though many residents object to the suggestion of inferiority or irrelevance that tends to be implied by the moniker "Old".
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Welwyn from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WELWYN, a village, a parish, and a [registration] sub-district, in Hatfield [registration] district, Herts. The village stands on the river Maran, 1¼ mile W of the Great Northern railway, and 5 N of Hatfield; carries on shoe-making and wool-stapling; consists chiefly of two well built streets; and has a head post-office,a [railway] station with telegraph, two hotels, a police station, a good ancient church, two dissenting chapels, a large national school, an education charity, a workhouse, and charities for the poor £26.
- "The parish includes Woolmer-Green hamlet, and comprises 2,987 acres. Real property: £7,044. Population: 1,612. Houses: 320. The property is much subdivided. Danesbury and Frythe are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £665. Patron: All Souls College, Oxford. Dr. Young was rector, and wrote here his Night Thoughts. A national school is at Woolmer-Green, and is used as a chapel of ease.
Welwyn still exists as a separate civil parish outside Welwyn Garden City.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Welwyn. Includes a summary of the earlier history of Welwyn.
Woolmer Green
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Woolmer Green is a small village in Hertfordshire, England. The 2011 census figure for the population (from the Office for National Statistics) was 1,362 people.
Situated between the villages of Welwyn and Knebworth, Woolmer Green was first settled in the Iron Age. The village was at the junction of two thoroughfares, the Great North Road and another road called Stane Street (or Stone Street) which stretches from St. Albans to another major Roman town, Colchester.
Woolmer Green has always been one of those places which is “neither here nor there”. In the Middle Ages part of the village was in Mardleybury Manor and part in Rectory Manor, with the northern part owing allegiance to Broadwater Manor or Knebworth. Things have not changed; the village is still at the point where the Districts of North Hertfordshire, East Hertfordshire and Welwyn Hatfield meet.
Prior to the year 2000, Woolmer Green was part of the parish of Welwyn for local government purposes. In that year, however, the parish gained its independence from its neighbour, and the inaugural meeting of the Parish Council was held in May 2000.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Woolmer Green.
Research Tips
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
- Hertfordshire Family History Society
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
- GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
- Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
- Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
- A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
- The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
- The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
- The hundred of Broadwater: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 52-53
- The parish of Welwyn ibid, volume 3, pp 165-171
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