Treorchy
Treorchy is a town and community (and electoral ward) in Wales. Once a community, it maintains the attributes of a town. Located in the county district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is additionally among the 16 areas of the Rhondda. It includes the villages of Cwmparc as well as Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda area was Welsh-speaking, as well as the Welsh language remained to be extensively spoken in the valley and also in the top villages of the Rhondda until the mid-twentieth century. The initial travelers 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 but this percentage was up to 56.6% by 1911. After being a community whose employment relied practically entirely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc as well as Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had actually shut. Treorchy came to be a commuter town, with the functioning population looking for work in the bigger communities and also cities nearby, such as Cardiff as well as Bridgend. Currently operate in Treorchy is mainly in retail.
