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Ferndale is a small town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the area 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 referred to as Glynrhedynog, the name of among the old farms on which the town is built. In its early stage Glynrhedynog was additionally known as Trerhondda after the name of the first large chapel to be built in the community. The identifying of settlements after chapels was widespread in Wales at the time, as is displayed in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was destined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words “glyn” meaning valley and also “rhedynog” suggesting 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 attracted the labor force and also their family members to the area, as well as by the 1880s “Ferndale” was well established as a successful community. With the phasing in of multilingual 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 and the institution is named after the park’s lake, ‘Llyn-y-Forwyn.’ (The Maiden’s Lake).