Ferndale
Ferndale is a village located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The very first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and was the initial community to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is known as Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old ranches on which the community is constructed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was likewise referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the very first large church to be built in the community. The naming of negotiations after chapels prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" suggesting valley and also "rhedynog" indicating ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to assimilate. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force and their family members to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a growing town. With the phasing in of multilingual road indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly reappeared and is currently the officially assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the increase in Ferndale after the town embraced the English language during the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language institution is located near the park and also the school is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).