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Details of place: Tregaron
County: Ceredigion
OS Grid Ref: SN679597 = 52.2196299882, -3.93515507842
Type of place: Village
Notes: Tregaron had many public houses, probably because it was a meeting place for drovers, who gathered their cattle and sheep there before taking them on eastwards to England.
1827
To Tregaron, a village of some size having 12 public houses, but this place as well as the town we have left has an air of poverty and misery about it.
Lloyd, Captain, A Diary of Journey from Charring Cross, London, through Wales, by Captain Lloyd, 1827, NLW MS 786, pp. 18-19
Places associated with this place
Pubs in this place
Black Lion Hotel , Tregaron
Bristol Arms , Tregaron
Brynawel Temperance Hotel , Station Road, Tregaron
Crown Inn , Tregaron
Crown and Anchor , Tregaron
Fountain Inn , Tregaron
Inn , Tregaron (exact location uncertain)
Ivy Bush , Market Square?, Tregaron
Lion Hotel , Tregaron (exact location uncertain)
Monarch , Tregaron
Nanteos Arms , Tregaron (exact location uncertain)
New Lamb Inn , Tregaron
Pontargamdwr Arms , Tregaron
Railway Hotel , Tregaron
Railway Inn , Tregaron
Red Lion Inn , Tregaron
Sunny Hill Hotel , Tregaron
Talbot Hotel , Tregaron
Temperance House , Market Square, Tregaron
Wenallt Arms , Tregaron
White Horse , Tregaron
Total: 21
Additional informationMap:
Hand-drawn map of Tregaron pubs by Mr Prosser
Date:
Newspaper:
Lack of urinals
Date: 1894
Newspaper:
Doomed Beer
Date: 1859
Newspaper:
A fatal pub crawl
Date: 1880
People associated with this place
British Womens Temperance Association, [-]
Total: 1
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