Ferndale
Ferndale is a village situated in the Rhondda Valley in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy as well as Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 as well as was the very first neighborhood to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is referred to as Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old ranches on which the community is built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was likewise called Trerhondda after the name of the very first large church to be built in the community. The identifying of settlements after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be utilized 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 purchasers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force and their households to the area, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful town. With the phasing in of bilingual roadway indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly reappeared and also is currently the officially assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the boost in Ferndale after the town took on the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language school is positioned near the park and the school is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).