Ferndale
Ferndale is a village situated in the Rhondda Valley in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and also Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and was the initial area to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley. In Welsh, Ferndale is called Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old farms on which the community is developed. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was additionally called Trerhondda after the name of the first big chapel to be constructed in the community. The identifying of settlements after churches was widespread in Wales at the time, as is displayed in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words "glyn" meaning valley and also "rhedynog" meaning ferny, and so 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 workforce and also their family members to the location, and also by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well established as a successful community. With the phasing in of bilingual road indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually reappeared and is currently the formally designated Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the rise in Ferndale after the village embraced the English language during the Industrial change. A Welsh language school is situated near the park as well as the college is called after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).