Treorchy
Treorchy is a village and area (as well as electoral ward) in Wales. When a town, it keeps the attributes of a town. Situated in the region district of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is likewise among the 16 areas of the Rhondda. It includes the villages of Cwmparc and Ynyswen. Pre-industrial Rhondda area was Welsh-speaking, as well as the Welsh language remained to be widely spoken in the valley and also in the upper villages of the Rhondda till the mid-twentieth century. The initial migrants to the Rhondda were from country Wales but later a higher proportion 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 virtually entirely 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 traveler village, with the working population seeking employment in the bigger towns and also cities close by, such as Cardiff and also Bridgend. Now work in Treorchy is primarily in retail.