 The term "Severn Valley" is also used to refer to a fictional location in horror novels based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft.However, this fictional location is based on the Gloucestershire, Vale of Berkeley and Cotswolds regions, some 60 miles (100 km) further south of the real-life Severn Valley.Characters in the interwar novels of Francis Brett Young typically breathe "the Severnside air" and wander its pastoral byways (see for example his 1937 "Portrait of a Village").