The 1920s novels "House in Dormer Forest" and "Seven for a Secret" were written at Spring Cottage, Lyth Hill by romantic novelist Mary Webb, who lived near the village on and off for ten years, alternating between Spring Cottage and her London home, until her death in 1927. The action in her most famous novel "Precious Bane" took place around the nearby Bomere Pool, that she called "Sarn Mere". The oldest known ghost in Shropshire, a dead Roman soldier, is also reputed to haunt Bomere Pool, the site of a Roman army camp and its associated civilian settlement.