Y Syrcas / The Circus: Ceredigion locations and folklore

Discover the Ceredigion setting of Y Syrcas

Y Syrcas / The Circus places a travelling circus within a fictional rural community in Victorian Ceredigion. The film's landscape connections include the Tregaron area and the surrounding hills. Read its story alongside the area's droving and farming heritage, while keeping the film's fictional events separate from documented local history.

The elephant in local memory

Tregaron's folklore recalls an elephant brought by a travelling circus in 1848 and said to have been buried near the Talbot inn. Treat the tale as part of the town's storytelling heritage, then explore the surrounding landscape and its mining connections.