The landscapes of South Shropshire have inspired countless artists, musicians and writers over the centuries. A E Housman is perhaps the best known, thanks to his epic poem A Shropshire Lad published in 1896.

While Housman is mainly associated with the Clun Valley and Ludlow, Mary Webb wrote about the landscape and folklore of the wilder hill country of the Long Mynd and the Stiperstones. Bishop's Castle features in several of her novels where it is known as Mallard's Keep.

D H Lawrence is not normally associated with this area but he wrote very powerfully of the brooding landscape around the Stipertones in his short novel St Mawr. This was written in 1924 after staying with a friend at Pontesbury at a time when he was in exile in New Mexico and disillusioned with life in Britain.

The children's writer Malcolm Saville had local connections on the Long Mynd for many years and used the Shropshire hills as settings for many of his stories including the famous Lone Pine adventures.