Tregaron Heritage Centre
Tregaron Heritage Centre
OPEN * Easter to October
Monday, Wednesday & Friday * 11am - 3pm
FREE ADMISSION
OURSTORY
VICTORIAN SCHOOLHOUSE
The Heritage Centre is situated in the old Victorian church school, and includes a reconstructed Victorian era classroom with pupils' desks, a teacher's desk, blackboard, slates and slate pencils, a Welsh Not, and a cane.
Local volunteers are available to talk to visitors in Welsh or English. The schoolroom also contains video exhibits.
CORS CARON
The Heritage Centre also serves as an information centre for Cors Caron, with exhibits on its history, environment, and restoration projects.
TEA ROOM
The Heritage Centre's tea room serves freshly homemade Welsh cakes, as well as tea and coffee.
RED KITES
Red kites continued to survive in Tregaron for decades after they had become nearly extinct in the rest of the UK. The community played a major role in restoring them to the huge population we are able to see here nearly any time we look to the skies.
TREGARON HISTORY
Tregaron is one the oldest market towns in Wales, having received a royal charter in 1292. It continues to be a farming community, and livestock markets are held in town twice a week. It served for hundreds of years as the beginning of a drovers' road across the Cambrian Mountains to markets in England, and has produced many interesting and important people over the course of its history.
EXHIBITPHOTOS
WEARE HERE
PERMANENTARTWORK
From Persecution to Celebration
by Ted Harrison
This artwork, on the end wall of The Old School at Tregaron in mid-Wales, shows silhouettes of swooping Red Kites. They form the shape of The Dove of St David. Legend tells of a dove being sent by God to appear alongside Wales’s patron saint as he preached at Llanddewi Brefi, four miles from Tregaron. Within the artwork, the Red Dragon of Wales is picked out in the copper colour. The artwork celebrates the survival and renaissance of Welsh Culture and Language. Back in the days of the ‘Welsh Not’, at schools like this one, children were punished for speaking their native language, in an official attempt to suppress Welsh. Celebrated too, here at the Heritage Centre, is Tregaron’s importance in the revival of this beautiful bird - brought back from near extinction in Wales after years of persecution.