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Welwyn

village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK
Place village Q1972764

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
Village, civil parish[3]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.831°, -0.215°
Authority
Welwyn Parish Council[7]
Historic county
Hertfordshire[11]
Local dialing code
01438[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Welwyn Hatfield[1]
OS grid reference
TL225165[6]
Population
8.4k (8.1k–9.3k, n=3)[8][9][10]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 9,307 · 8,099 · 8,425 GeoNames 3,254 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
AL6[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Welwyn, Hertfordshire en Welwyn Village en Welwyn, Herts. en Old Welwyn en Welwyn ar ولوين de Welwyn Village de Old Welwyn fa ولوین he ולווין ru Велвин ru Уэлин uk Велвін zh 韋林
🔖 Identifiers · 31
VIAF cluster ID
133702493
Library of Congress authority ID
n81094811
GND ID
4755858-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
St Mary the Virgin, Welwyn, Herts - geograph.org.uk - 348869.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
15579
BBC News topic ID
c0n168gwleet
BBC Things ID
c2fc1475-fe54-4599-8690-fe5bac853eb0
British History Online VCH ID
herts/vol3/pp165-171
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
eeb07162-92cf-42bc-8d27-560d55588d1b
FactGrid item ID
Docklands Light Railway
Freebase ID
/m/01z27l
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2611116
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GSS code (2011)
E04004822
GeoNames ID
2634553, 7296050
KEPN ID
Hertfordshire/Welwyn
MusicBrainz area ID
d54f41b4-3e22-472b-98b3-4b77c520738e
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007552868305171
OpenDomesday settlement ID
TL2316/welwyn
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3564073
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2634553
SNARC ID
Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
Survey of English Place-Names ID
53285b94b47fc40ace00074f, 53285ba0b47fc40ace0007dc
TOID
7000000000003889, 4000000074553174
Topic's main category
Category:Welwyn
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
13713
Vision of Britain place ID
1216
Vision of Britain unit ID
10090131
WOEID
39489
Who's on First ID
1293030145
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcGpBjqRdmkfYfpCRTrbd
Yale LUX ID
place/3ecb7b0c-aa81-4520-b907-204f9312aa8f

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Located in time zoneP421
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
People who died here 8
Edward Young, Margaret Murray, Charles Holden, Jean Desforges, Alfred Beit, Robert Whytlaw-Gray, George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Edith Woodford-Grimes
Contained subdivisions 2
Welwyn North railway station, Digswell
Instance of 2
Village, civil parish
People born here 2
Adrian Reynard, Matthew Marsh
Residents 2
Charles Holden, Rebecca Llewellyn
Country 1
United Kingdom
FactGrid item ID 1
Docklands Light Railway
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Welwyn Hatfield
Named after 1
Welwyn Garden City
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Cultural Significance

Things named for Welwyn include Welwyn Garden City[12], a town[13], in United Kingdom[14], founded in 1920[15].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Welwyn include Welwyn Garden City[12], a town[13], in United Kingdom[14], founded in 1920[15].

Related Entities

Edward Young Margaret Murray United Kingdom

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  8. [8] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 2d ago · Evs · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Welwyn Hatfield
    Topic's main category → Category:Welwyn
    Historic county → Hertfordshire
    Country → United Kingdom
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetlabel-set:1|ru */ Уэлин"
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