Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy as well as Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and also was the initial area to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is called Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old ranches on which the town is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also known as Trerhondda after the name of the very first large chapel to be built in the community. The naming of settlements after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" implying valley and "rhedynog" implying ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English purchasers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what drew the workforce as well as their family members to the location, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a flourishing community. With the phasing in of bilingual road indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively came back and also is now the formally marked 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 college is positioned near the park and the institution is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).