Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the area district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The initial coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 as well as was the initial neighborhood to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is referred to as Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old ranches on which the community is constructed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was likewise referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the first big church to be integrated in the community. The naming of settlements after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" meaning valley and "rhedynog" implying ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English purchasers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the workforce and also their households to the location, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a flourishing community. With the phasing in of bilingual road indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly re-emerged and is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the increase in Ferndale after the village embraced the English language throughout the Industrial change. A Welsh language college is located near the park and also the school is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
