Description: According to legend a mermaid lives in the pool and lures men to their deaths at midnight. The pool is said to be bottomless and no cattle will drink from it and no fowl will fly over it. Other stories relate to a woman lace pedlar who was murdered here, a beautiful woman who was drowned here after being accused of witchcraft by a rejected suitor, Joseph Linnett, whose body was later found floating in the mere, his face covered with sharp scratches.