Treorchy
Treorchy is a village as well as area (and also selecting ward) in Wales. When a town, it keeps the qualities of a community. Located in the county district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally one of the 16 communities 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 widely talked in the valley as well as in the top towns of the Rhondda until the mid-twentieth century. The initial travelers to the Rhondda were from country Wales however later a greater proportion originated from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking however this percentage was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose work depended virtually entirely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and also Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s all of these collieries had closed. Treorchy came to be a commuter village, with the functioning population looking for employment in the larger communities as well as cities nearby, such as Cardiff and Bridgend. Now operate in Treorchy is mostly in retail.
