Oakdale

Morphology: oak+dale
This is an example of naming a village in English, though using the traditional Welsh method of naming a village or town according to geographical features or landmarks. Oaks were common trees in the area and trees are a common part of many place names in Wales (as with Deri, also in Caerphilly county borough). The name was first used by the Oakdale Navigation Collieries Ltd, a subsidiary of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Co. The village was created specifically to house miners and their families as no settlement existed there previously and was actually designed through a competition in 1910-11 to build a village of 600 houses for such a purpose. Though it can be seen translated sometimes as Cwmderi, Cwmderwen, Glyn-y-deri or Glyn-derwen, no Welsh name officially exists for the village at the moment. The Welsh school in the area is named Ysgol Gymraeg Cwm Derwen.