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Treorchy
Treorchy is a town as well as area (as well as electoral ward) in Wales. When a town, it maintains the attributes of a community. Located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally among the 16 neighborhoods of the Rhondda. It consists of the towns of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda community was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language remained to be commonly talked in the valley as well as in the upper villages of the Rhondda up until the mid-twentieth century. The original travelers to the Rhondda were from country Wales yet later on a higher proportion originated 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 work counted 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 actually shut. Treorchy became a traveler village, with the working population looking for employment in the larger communities and cities nearby, such as Cardiff as well as Bridgend. Currently work in Treorchy is mostly in retail.