Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and neighborhood (and selecting ward) in Wales. When a community, it retains the features of a community. Situated in the area borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is also one of the 16 areas of the Rhondda. It consists of the towns of Cwmparc and also Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda community was Welsh-speaking, as well as the Welsh language continued to be commonly spoken in the valley as well as in the top towns of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales yet later a higher percentage came from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking but this proportion fell to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose employment depended practically entirely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had actually shut. Treorchy became a commuter village, with the functioning population seeking work in the bigger communities and also cities close by, such as Cardiff and Bridgend. Currently work in Treorchy is mainly in retail.
