Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and also neighborhood (and electoral ward) in Wales. As soon as a town, it keeps the attributes of a community. Positioned in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally one of the 16 areas of the Rhondda. It includes the villages of Cwmparc and also Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda community was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language continued to be extensively spoken in the valley and in the top towns of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original travelers to the Rhondda were from rural Wales yet later a higher proportion came from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking however this proportion was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose work relied almost totally on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and also Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had actually closed. Treorchy ended up being a commuter village, with the working population seeking employment in the larger communities and also cities close by, such as Cardiff as well as Bridgend. Currently work in Treorchy is mostly in retail.