Ferndale
Ferndale is a town located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough 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 and was the initial neighborhood to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is referred to as Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old farms on which the town is constructed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was additionally referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the first big church to be integrated in the community. The identifying of negotiations after churches was widespread in Wales at the time, as is displayed in town names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" meaning valley and also "rhedynog" implying ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English purchasers to assimilate. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the labor force as well as their family members to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful community. With the phasing in of bilingual road indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly reappeared as well as is now the officially assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the increase in Ferndale after the town took on the English language throughout the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language institution is positioned near the park as well as the college is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
