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Ferndale

Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and also Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The initial coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and was the initial 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 built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also known as Trerhondda after the name of the very first big church to be built in the community. The identifying of negotiations after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" meaning valley and also "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English customers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what drew the workforce and their households to the area, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful community. With the phasing in of bilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively re-emerged and is currently the officially marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the boost in Ferndale after the village adopted the English language during the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language school is located near the park and the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).