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Ferndale is a small town situated 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 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 ranches on which the town is built. In its infancy Glynrhedynog was also called Trerhondda after the name of the first large chapel to be built in the community. The naming of settlements after churches prevailed in Wales at the time, as is received town names such as Bethesda, Beulah and also Horeb, however neither Glynrhedynog neither Trerhondda was predestined to be used for long. Glynrhedynog is made from words “glyn” indicating valley and “rhedynog” implying ferny, therefore coal from the Glynrhedynog pits was marketed as Ferndale coal, a a lot easier name for English buyers to take in. The Ferndale pits are what drew the workforce and their families to the area, and also by the 1880s “Ferndale” was well developed as a successful community. With the phasing in of bilingual roadway indicators from the late 1980s onwards, the name Glynrhedynog gradually re-emerged and is currently the officially marked Welsh language name for Ferndale. The Welsh language gets on the boost in Ferndale after the town embraced the English language during the Industrial change. A Welsh language school is positioned near the park and also the institution is named after the park’s lake, ‘Llyn-y-Forwyn.’ (The Maiden’s Lake).