Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the area borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and was the first neighborhood 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 town is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also known as Trerhondda after the name of the very first big church to be integrated in the town. The identifying of negotiations after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is displayed in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" implying valley and also "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the workforce and also their families to the location, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a flourishing town. With the phasing in of multilingual roadway signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly came back and is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the boost in Ferndale after the town took on the English language throughout the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language college is positioned near the park as well as the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).