Treorchy
Treorchy is a village as well as area (as well as selecting ward) in Wales. Once a town, it retains the features of a community. Situated in the area district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is also one of the 16 neighborhoods of the Rhondda. It consists of the villages of Cwmparc and also Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda neighborhood was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language remained to be commonly spoken in the valley as well as in the top villages of the Rhondda up until the mid-twentieth century. The initial migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales yet later on a greater percentage came from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking however this proportion fell to 56.6% by 1911. After being a town whose work relied virtually completely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had shut. Treorchy ended up being a commuter town, with the functioning population seeking employment in the bigger towns and cities close by, such as Cardiff and also Bridgend. Now operate in Treorchy is mostly in retail.
