The Garth Mountain

[macawmatt]

Really love the scenery there. Love to visit over there one of these days.

[Steve Ashton]

For those who did not catch the meaning behind my first reply to Derek.....

Garth Mountain or Garth Hill or just The Garth is 307 meters or 1007 feet above sea level.
The Garth can be seen on a clear day from the whole of Cardiff.


It is believed that The Garth was the inspiration for the novel "The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain" by Christopher Monger.
The book was made into a movie of the same name starring Hugh Grant.
In the story the hill is named Ffynnon Garw. The filming location was actually a hill to the North of The Garth called Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant.
The story revolves around the height of Ffynnon Garw. Always called and referred to as a mountain it is found by surveyors to be short of the required 1000 ft. to qualify as a mountain. Overnight the residents of the town haul dirt to the top in buckets and wheel barrows building it up to the required height.

On the top of The Garth is a Tumulus or mound which may be a burial barrow. The small spire is a survey trig point.

[Derek]

Thanks for that info Steve .... you can see the garth from Cardiff very easily
Here it is just to the right of the tree in the middle of the pic.


And yes they are burial mounds .. heres a pic from a previous trip


And one last pic of the garth taking again on a previous trip, showing the little outcrop on the far right where we sit, chill and enjoy the views.


Iechyd Da
Derek

[crash]

Another great pictorial Derek. One day I will have a pint in your local pub.

[sailortats]

Darn you Derek. Every time I see your wonderful pictures of the hills and countryside I get the urge to move back to my small town in New Hampshire. If I end up doing that I am sending you the bill for the moving expenses.

[John_Carrick]

You have some seriously good hills near where you are in San Fran. Yosemite was pretty stunning I recall.