What did Letchworth become in 1963 and Welwyn in 1969?
Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England. It is located approximately from Kings Cross, London. Welwyn Garden City was the second garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first new towns (designated 1948). 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. Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned
Welwyn Additional bi-hourly service 314 is provided by Centrebus, connecting Welwyn to Codicote and Hitchin. Green Line route 797 stops on the by-pass, providing an hourly direct link to areas of North London and the West End. The nearest railway station is Welwyn North in the nearby village of Digswell, about a mile east from the village. Trains are operated by Great Northern and run every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday south to London King's Cross and north to Hitchin and Stevenage, with an hourly service to Letchworth and Cambridge and to Peterborough. On Sundays an hourly service operates from London