Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first 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 one of the old ranches on which the town is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was likewise known as Trerhondda after the name of the initial huge chapel to be integrated 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 neither Trerhondda was predestined 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 a lot easier name for English purchasers to assimilate. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the workforce and also their family members to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a thriving town. With the phasing in of bilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually re-emerged as well as is currently the formally assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the rise in Ferndale after the village embraced the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language school is located near the park and the school is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
