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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 placePubs 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 , TregaronTotal: 21
Additional informationMap:
Hand-drawn map of Tregaron pubs by Mr Prosser
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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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