The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain. The film that made the Garth famous.
However the story was fiction. Writer/Director Christopher Monger was born in Taff’s Well and had heard
the story from his grandfather and other villagers. (The filming of the movie was not made at Taff’s Well.
That area, near Cardiff, was too built up to portray village life in 1917. The actual filming was done in
northern Wales at Llanrhaeadr-yn-Mochnant, located 10 miles west of Oswestry.). The pimple on the top of
the Garth is in fact a Bronze age burial mound and is a protected monument.