The Quinny Brook runs from Ashes Hollow through the village and it is a popular place to begin walks up the Long Mynd.

Ragleth Hill lies immediately to the east of the village, on the other side of the Welsh Marches Line and A49.

Novelist and short story writer Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) spent summer holidays lodging at the Green Dragon, inspiring her short story At the Green Dragon (published 1894).

[10] Oliver Sandys (1892-1964), widow of Caradoc Evans and a novelist in her own right, lived at the Ancient House, across the road from the church, from the 1950s.

[12] The horologist Charles Jendon was a well-known figure in the village for many years; his knowledge of long-case clocks was well known to many specialists in the field.

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