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Ferndale
Ferndale is a town located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring towns are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and 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 one of the old farms on which the community is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was additionally referred to as Trerhondda after the name of the very first large chapel to be built in the community. The naming of negotiations after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words "glyn" implying valley and "rhedynog" implying ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a much easier name for English buyers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the labor force as well as their families to the location, as well as by the 1880s "Ferndale" was well developed as a growing community. With the phasing in of bilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog slowly came back and also is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the boost in Ferndale after the town adopted the English language during the Industrial change. A Welsh language school is situated near the park and also the college is named after the park's lake, 'Llyn-y-Forwyn.' (The Maiden's Lake).