Treorchy
Treorchy is a village as well as community (as well as selecting ward) in Wales. Once a town, it retains the features of a community. Located in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally one of the 16 communities of the Rhondda. It includes the villages of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda neighborhood was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language remained to be widely talked in the valley and in the upper villages of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales but later on a greater proportion originated from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking however this proportion was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a town whose employment relied practically totally on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had actually shut. Treorchy became a commuter village, with the working population looking for employment in the larger communities and also cities nearby, such as Cardiff and also Bridgend. Now operate in Treorchy is mostly in retail.