Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and community (and also selecting ward) in Wales. When a community, it preserves the characteristics of a town. Situated 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 as well as Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda neighborhood was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language continued to be commonly spoken in the valley and in the top villages of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales but later on a higher proportion originated from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking yet this percentage was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose work relied virtually 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 shut. Treorchy ended up being a traveler town, with the working population looking for employment in the bigger communities and also cities nearby, such as Cardiff and Bridgend. Currently work in Treorchy is mostly in retail.
