Treorchy
Treorchy is a village as well as community (and selecting ward) in Wales. As soon as a town, it maintains the features of a community. Positioned in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is also one of the 16 neighborhoods of the Rhondda. It includes the towns of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda community was Welsh-speaking, and also the Welsh language continued to be widely talked in the valley and also in the top villages of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The original travelers to the Rhondda were from rural Wales however later on a higher percentage originated from England. In 1901 64.4% of the population of the Rhondda Urban District were recorded as Welsh-speaking but this percentage fell to 56.6% by 1911. After being a town whose employment depended practically completely on coal mining in the Abergorki, Tylecoch, Parc and also Dare collieries, by the end of the 1970s every one of these collieries had shut. Treorchy came to be a commuter town, with the functioning population looking for work in the bigger communities and cities nearby, such as Cardiff and also Bridgend. Now work in Treorchy is mostly in retail.