Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and area (and also electoral ward) in Wales. As soon as a community, it retains the characteristics of a town. Located in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally one of the 16 neighborhoods of the Rhondda. It consists of the villages of Cwmparc and also Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda community was Welsh-speaking, and the Welsh language continued to be extensively spoken in the valley as well as in the top villages of the Rhondda until the mid-twentieth century. The original travelers to the Rhondda were from rural Wales but later 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 percentage was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose employment counted virtually completely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and also Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had closed. Treorchy ended up being a commuter town, with the working population seeking employment in the bigger communities as well as cities close by, such as Cardiff as well as Bridgend. Now work in Treorchy is mostly in retail.
