Lyth Hill is a Local Nature Reserve in Shropshire, England which contains valuable habitats for wildlife and is associated with the novelist and poet Mary Webb.
[citation needed] In the past this was a site of ropemaking,[1] with a windmill built in 1835 by John Carter being used to make the hemp and flax fibres employed in the trade.
[2] A house called Rope Walk on that part of Lyth Hill was the home from 1956 until his death in 1977 of Major General Eric Miles.
[3] In 1917, the poet and novelist Mary Webb bought a plot on Lyth Hill, where she built a small bungalow named Spring Cottage.
[6] In September 2011 a Shropshire sky watch team, who had set up their cameras to witness the re-entry of a research satellite, instead reported a strange phenomenon—a red beam of light flashing down at the ground, accompanied by a crackling electric sound.