Ferndale
Ferndale is a village situated in the Rhondda Valley in the area borough 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 community 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 developed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the very first big church to be built in the town. The naming of negotiations after chapels prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" meaning valley and "rhedynog" suggesting ferny, therefore 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 attracted the labor force and their households to the area, and also by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a thriving town. With the phasing in of multilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly reappeared and is currently the formally assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the rise in Ferndale after the town embraced the English language throughout the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language institution is positioned near the park and also the institution is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
