Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales Genealogy

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Tregaron is an historic market town in the upper Teifi Valley in Ceredigion, Wales.

Before 1974 the town was in the historic county of Cardiganshire and, between 1874 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Ceredigion.

History
In 1833: "TRÊGARON (CARON, or TRÊV-GARON), a market-town and parish (formerly a borough), partly in the hundred of ILAR, but chiefly in the lower and upper divisions of the hundred of PENARTH, county of CARDIGAN, SOUTH WALES, 39 miles (E. by N.) from Cardigan, and 202 (W. by N.) from London, comprising the chapelry of Caron-Uwch-Clawdd, or Strata Florida, and containing 2282 inhabitants. This place is said to derive its name from being the burial-place of Caron, a Welsh king, who, from a low situation in life, raised himself, by his bravery and generous deportment, to the sovereignty, which he held for seven years ..." [From Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of Wales 1833]

For more information on Tregaron see Genuki - Tregaron

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision Of Britain - Tregaron