A Threat to Gloucestershire The address of a dweller near
Broadway, often held, in Goldsmith's phrase, to be the " loveliest village of the lawn," is - commended to the notice of a wide public. He and the Council .for the Preservation of Rural England wish to preserve in perpetuity the peak of May Hill, a pretty name for a most English spot. Yoli look down on the Severn valley all the way from the Welsh hills to the Cots- wolds ; you look up to Wild slopes of bracken (which are private property, but open to the public) ; you are in the midst of the most beautiful villages in the world. The peak of the hill in the parish of Longhope (another good English name), is the eye of the district, incomparable in many ways even in Gloucestershire. It is immediately threatened by the builder. One uncomely building, there would spoil a. great landscape. One of the members of the C.P.R.E. has secured an option to purchase the 150 acres that matter most for £20 an acre, or £3,000 in all. It is to be hoped that anyone who cares for his- county, or for that' matter for England, will save a yard or two by sending a, subscription to Sir Philip Stott, Bart., Stanton Court, near Broadway, Glos., who is acting as treasurer. Views such as this are, or should be, a national possession.
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