Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and also community (and electoral ward) in Wales. Once a town, it retains the characteristics of a town. Situated in the area district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally among the 16 communities of the Rhondda. It consists of the villages of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda neighborhood was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language continued to be commonly spoken in the valley and in the upper villages of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The initial migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales however later 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 fell to 56.6% by 1911. After being a town whose employment depended almost entirely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had shut. Treorchy came to be a commuter village, with the functioning population looking for employment in the bigger communities and also cities close by, such as Cardiff and Bridgend. Now work in Treorchy is primarily in retail.
