Ferndale
Ferndale is a town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy as well as Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The initial coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 as well as was the initial area to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is called Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old ranches on which the community is built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was additionally known as Trerhondda after the name of the first big chapel to be constructed in the community. The identifying of negotiations after churches was widespread in Wales at the time, as is shown in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" indicating valley as well as "rhedynog" indicating ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force and also their families to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a flourishing town. With the phasing in of bilingual roadway indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively re-emerged and also is currently the formally designated Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the increase in Ferndale after the village took on the English language throughout the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language school is situated near the park as well as the college is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).