Christopher Monger, a native of Taff's Well, wrote the novel The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. The location of the fictional Ffynnon Garw above the writer's home village suggests that it is the Garth and the mound on which the trigonometrical point stands is a Bronze Age burial mound.
Christopher Monger, a resident of Taff's Well, wrote the novel "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain." The fictional location Ffynnon Garw, situated above his home village, suggests its connection to the Garth and the Bronze Age burial mound where the trigonometrical point is located.