Ferndale
Ferndale is a town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy as well as Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The initial coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and also was the first area 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 early stage Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the first big church to be constructed in the community. The identifying of negotiations after churches was widespread in Wales at the time, as is shown in town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" meaning valley and also "rhedynog" indicating ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English customers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the workforce and also their households to the location, and also by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a flourishing town. With the phasing in of bilingual road indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively reappeared as well as is currently the officially marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the boost in Ferndale after the village embraced the English language during the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language institution is situated near the park as well as the school is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).