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Ferndale
Ferndale is a town situated 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 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 referred to as Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old farms on which the town is built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also known as Trerhondda after the name of the first large church to be built in the town. The naming of negotiations after churches was widespread in Wales at the time, as is received village names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" indicating valley as well as "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English customers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what drew the workforce and their family members to the location, and also by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a successful community. With the phasing in of multilingual road indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly reappeared as well as is currently the formally designated Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the increase in Ferndale after the village took on the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language college is located near the park and also the school is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).