In 2020 Welwyn Garden City is 100 years old

We are delighted that we have already managed to deliver many highly successful events to celebrate our wonderful town in its centenary year

Our 20.20km Centenary Walk through villages and beautiful countryside is proving to be very popular, already enjoyed by many hundreds of people. You can download our leaflet from our Centenary Walk page.

Enjoy our four City of Trees trails which celebrate the c. 19,000 trees which can be found across the town. The trail leaflets can be downloaded from our City Of Trees Page.

A life sized bronze sculpture of Sir Ebenezer Howard has been cast – a celebration of his vision for Welwyn Garden City – ‘a true marriage of town and country’. The statue will be unveiled in the town centre later this year.

Our much anticipated Carnival is now being planned to take place on 19 June 2021 as a grand finale to the Centenary celebrations.

Explore our website to find out more about our signature projects and see photos of some of our events which have which have already taken place.

We all look forward to celebrating with you as soon as we are able. In the meantime, follow us on social media, sign up for our newsletter and check back here for updates.

We would like to extend sincere thanks to all our sponsors, partners and volunteers, without whom our fantastic year of celebrations would not have been possible.

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Events to look forward to...

22 Apr - 23 Apr

Thursday

International Symposium

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21 May

Friday

The Three Choirs plus Love to Sing course singers – Gala Concert

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30 May

Sunday

Centenary Map Challenge

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10 Jul

Saturday

Le Petit Tour Cycle Race

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We have taken great care to ensure the accuracy of every event listed here, but suggest you check details of events nearer the time just in case there have been changes.

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News

The English Garden Cities – A World Heritage Site?

4th August 2020

One of our signature projects is an international symposium now scheduled to take place on 22 and 23 April 2021.

Graeme Bell on the initiative to secure World Heritage Site status for the two English – and pioneering – Garden Cities

Welwyn Garden City’s Famous Town Plan

11th June 2020

Welwyn Garden City is arguably one of the most beautiful and certainly the best planned towns in England. The man responsible for the much of what we see in the City was Louis de Soissons, its Chief Architect and Town Planner for 42 years – from its inception in 1920 till his death in 1962.