Biomass Boiler in Ferndale

Ferndale

Ferndale is a small town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the county district of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The very 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 called Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old farms on which the community is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the first large chapel to be integrated in the town. The identifying of settlements after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is shown in town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" meaning valley as well as "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English buyers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what drew the labor force as well as their families to the area, and by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful community. With the phasing in of multilingual road indications from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively came back as well as is currently the officially designated Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the rise in Ferndale after the village adopted the English language during the Industrial transformation. A Welsh language college is situated near the park and the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).