Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and also Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The very first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 as well as was the very first area to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is called Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old ranches on which the community is developed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was additionally referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the initial huge church to be constructed in the town. The naming of settlements after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is shown in town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" implying valley and also "rhedynog" implying ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English purchasers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force and also their family members to the area, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a successful town. With the phasing in of multilingual road indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually came back as well as is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the increase in Ferndale after the town adopted the English language throughout the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language institution is situated near the park and also the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
