East of England
Hertfordshire
Welwyn Hatfield

Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City is a town in , . It was the second "garden city" in England, and one of the first "new towns". It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and exemplifies the physical, social and cultural planning ideals of the periods in which it was built.
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  • Type: Town with 48,400 residents
  • Description: garden city and new town in Hertfordshire, England
  • Also known as: “Garden City”, “Welwyn”, and “Welwyn Garden”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Welwyn Garden City railway station and Howard Centre.

Railway station
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serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in , England. It is 20 miles 25 chains from on the East Coast Main Line. Train services are currently provided by Thameslink and Great Northern.

Shopping center
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a shopping centre in Welwyn Garden City. It is named after Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement.

Nature reserve
is a 4 hectare nature reserve in , , England. It is managed by the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, which purchased the site in 1970.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Welwyn and Digswell.

Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England. The parish also includes the nearby villages and settlements of , Mardley Heath and .

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in the in the district, in the English county of which is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book.

Village
Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. It is located close to Welwyn Garden City and and is in the Hatfield Villages Ward of the .

Welwyn Garden City

Latitude
51.8031° or 51° 48′ 11″ north
Longitude
-0.2069° or 0° 12′ 25″ west
Population
48,400
Elevation
302 feet (92 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WGC
Open location code
9C3XRQ3V+66
Open­Street­Map ID
node 81886463
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634552
Wiki­data ID
Q19789
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Welwyn Garden City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Arabic: “ولوين جاردن سيتي”
  • Aragonese: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Arpitan: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Asturian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Basque: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Bavarian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Breton: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Catalan: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Cebuano: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Chinese: “韋林花園城”
  • Chinese: “韋林花園市”
  • Chinese: “韦林花园城”
  • Corsican: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Croatian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Czech: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Danish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Dutch: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولوين جاردن سيتى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلوين جاردين سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Estonian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Finnish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • French: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Friulian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Galician: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • German: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Greek: “Ουέλουιν Γκάρντεν Σίτι”
  • Hebrew: “ולווין גרדן סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “ולין גרדן סיטי”
  • Hungarian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Icelandic: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Ido: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Indonesian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Interlingua: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Interlingue: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Irish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Italian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Japanese: “ウェリン・ガーデン・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ウェルウィン・ガーデン・シティ駅”
  • Kongo: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Korean: “웰루인가든시티”
  • Korean: “웰린가든시티”
  • Ladin: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Latvian: “Velina”
  • Ligurian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Limburgan: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Low German: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Luxembourgish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Malagasy: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Malay: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Minangkabau: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Narom: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Neapolitan: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Welvyn Garden City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Norwegian: “Welvyn Garden City”
  • Norwegian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Nyungar: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Persian: “ولوین گاردن سیتی”
  • Picard: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Piemontese: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Polish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Portuguese: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Romanian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Romansh: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Russian: “Уэлин-Гарден-Сити”
  • Sardinian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Scots: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Serbian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Sicilian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Silesian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Slovak: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Slovenian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولوین قاردن سیتی”
  • Spanish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Swahili: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Swedish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Swiss German: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Turkish: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Ukrainian: “Велін-гарден-сіті”
  • Venetian: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Vietnamese: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Vlaams: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Volapük: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Walloon: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Welsh: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Wolof: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • Zulu: “Welwyn Garden City”
  • “Welwyn Garden City”

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