12 SEPTEMBER 1958, Page 23

DEVON

SIR.—Again and again in the Spectator• one sees an advertisement for Shell County Guides, edited by John Betjeman; and in the list, one on Devonshire. Can you tell me where Devonshire lies? is it next to Cornwallshire? Or nearer London, not far from, say, Essexshire or Kcntshire? Where, occasionally, one sees in tea-shops, the words Devonshire Cream?— Yours faithfully,

HENRY WILLIAMSON Barnstable and North Devon Club, Barnstable