It is rumoured that William Shakespeare also spent some time as a fellow page boy here and they remained companions in adult life.
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The poet Michael Drayton was in the service of the Goodere family around 1580, and his works contain allusions to Polesworth and the River Anker (Brink, 1990).
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That part of the hall known as Pooley Farm was once owned by Edwin Starr, famous for the song War.
He was buried at Polesworth, Warwickshire, in unconsecrated ground as an excommunicated person.
Roper married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Goodere of Polesworth,
Baxterley Church, a church in the Polesworth Deanery of the Diocese of Birmingham, it is about 1.7 miles from the village and the nearest village to it is Wood End.
Later Sir Henry Goodere, was a patron of the arts and leader of the Polesworth Group of poets which included his protegee Michael Drayton.