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Ferndale is a village located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages 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 among the old farms on which the town is developed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the initial big church to be integrated in the community. The identifying of negotiations after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is displayed in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, yet neither Glynrhedynog nor Trerhondda was predestined to be utilized for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words “glyn” indicating valley and also “rhedynog” suggesting ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to absorb. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the labor force as well as their family members to the location, and also by the 1880s “Ferndale” was well developed as a successful community. With the phasing in of multilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog progressively came back as well as is now the formally marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the increase in Ferndale after the village took on the English language throughout the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language college is situated near the park and also the school is named after the park’s lake, ‘Llyn-y-Forwyn.’ (The Maiden’s Lake).