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Ferndale is a town situated in the Rhondda Valley in the region borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau, Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The very first 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 called Glynrhedynog, the name of one of the old farms on which the community is constructed. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the initial big chapel to be built in the community. The identifying of negotiations after chapels prevailed in Wales at the time, as is shown in village names such as Bethesda, Beulah and Horeb, but neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from the words “glyn” meaning valley and “rhedynog” implying ferny, and so coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English purchasers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what attracted the labor force as well as their families to the area, and also by the 1880s “Ferndale” was well developed as a flourishing community. With the phasing in of bilingual road signs from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually re-emerged as well as is currently the formally assigned Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language is on the boost in Ferndale after the town took on the English language throughout the Industrial revolution. A Welsh language institution is located near the park as well as the institution is named after the park’s lake, ‘Llyn-y-Forwyn.’ (The Maiden’s Lake).