Ferndale
Ferndale is a small town located in the Rhondda Valley in the area borough 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 and also was the first neighborhood to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is called Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old ranches on which the town is constructed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the very first huge church to be constructed in the community. The identifying of negotiations after chapels prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah as well as Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be made use of for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" indicating valley and also "rhedynog" implying ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English customers to assimilate. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the labor force and also their households to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful town. With the phasing in of multilingual roadway signs 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 rise in Ferndale after the town took on the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language institution is located near the park and also the institution is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).
