Treorchy
Treorchy is a village and also area (as well as selecting ward) in Wales. Once a town, it retains the qualities of a town. Positioned in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is also among the 16 neighborhoods of the Rhondda. It consists of the villages of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda area was Welsh-speaking, and the Welsh language continued to be widely talked in the valley and also in the top towns of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original migrants to the Rhondda were from rural Wales but later a greater percentage originated from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking but this percentage fell to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose employment depended virtually totally on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s all of these collieries had shut. Treorchy became a commuter town, with the working population looking for employment in the larger communities and also cities nearby, such as Cardiff and also Bridgend. Currently operate in Treorchy is mainly in retail.