Notable buildings in the town include the the parish church, St Caron's (after which the town is named), and the 13th-century Talbot Hotel, which supposedly has an elephant buried in its grounds. The remote chapelSoar y mynydd is close to Tregaron. In March, 1977, a cottage near Tregaron was one target of an Operation Julie police raid in which vast quantities of the drug LSD were seized.[1]
During the Second World War, the War Office used a site near Tregaron for training exercises. Its continued use for training exercises following the war was the subject of protest by Plaid Cymru which also challenged the UK government's continued military conscription in peacetime. Other locations in Wales used for training exercises included Preseli Hills and Trawsfynydd.
