Ferndale is a small town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the area district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns 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 first neighborhood to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is known as Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old ranches on which the town is constructed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was likewise known as Trerhondda after the name of the very first big chapel to be built in the town. The identifying of negotiations after chapels prevailed in Wales at the time, as is shown in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" implying valley and "rhedynog" indicating ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English purchasers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what drew the workforce as well as their family members to the location, and also by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a flourishing community. With the phasing in of bilingual roadway indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually re-emerged and is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the rise in Ferndale after the town embraced the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language school is positioned near the park as well as the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).