In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.
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The village has a brief association, celebrated by a blue plaque on a building on Church Street, with Vincent van Gogh, who visited his sister (having walked from London) while she was staying in Welwyn.
Welwyn North railway station serves the villages of Digswell and Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England.
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According to John Bateman, who derived his information from statistics published in 1873, Lord Dacre, of The Hoo, Kimpton, Welwyn, had around 13,000 acres comprising: 6,658 acres in Hertfordshire (worth 9,527 guineas per annum), 3,600 acres in Essex (worth 3,550 guineas per annum), 2,081 acres in Cambridge (worth 2,323 guineas per annum) and 978 acres in Suffolk (worth 1,223 guineas per annum).
The name Welrod comes from the custom that all the clandestine equipment devised at Station IX in Welwyn had names starting with Wel, e.g., Welbike, Welman.
John Wackett of Welwyn RFC and Rosslyn Park played Hooker for England against Ireland and Wales in 1959.