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Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ferndale Colliery was a series of nine coal mines, located close to the village of Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. The first development by David Davies of Montgomeryshire from 1857, in accessing the high quality steam coal and a greater depth, spurred others into tapping into the "Black Gold." Over the following 50 years, eight further pits were created. Ferndale No.1 was developed on the land of the farm at Blaenllechau, within the borough of Ferdale. The following four pits were also within the village borough of Ferndale, while the last four were within the boundaries of neigbouring village Tylorstown. These later pits were also referred to as Tylorstown No.6 through No.9. However, later consolidation within the areas mining and pit complex eventually connected all nine of the mines. Hence the whole development was called Ferndale Colliery, from the completion of No.9 in 1907 by Davies's Ocean Colliery Company onwards. This allowed the complex to work the coal and ironstone of the: Two Feet Nine; Four Feet; Five Feet; Bute; Gellideg; Red; and Yard seams.