23 Nov
Building work | Damp Proofing
Ferndale - CF43
Enquiry from: Elizabeth M
Start Date: Immediate
Small area of wet rot and other damp that needs to be treated.
Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The initial coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and was the first community 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 developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was likewise called Trerhondda after the name of the first big chapel to be built in the town. The identifying of negotiations after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is received village names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" suggesting valley as well as "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to assimilate. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force and their family members to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a growing town. With the phasing in of bilingual roadway indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually re-emerged as well as is now the formally assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the rise in Ferndale after the village embraced the English language during the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language school is located near the park as well as the institution is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
