PROTECTION OF STONEHENGE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—An appeal has recently been issued for a sum of £35,000 to purchase the land surrounding Stonehenge on all its sides, and vest it in the National Trust, thereby securing it from the imminent danger of being developed as a building site.
It is gratifying to be able to report that almost sufficient donations have now been received to enable the Committee to complete the purchase of the site of the existing deielict aerodromes, hutments and other unsightly buildings to the South and West of Stonehenge. These buildings have been sold to a firm of contractors who will begin to remove them -immediately, and have given a guarantee that the land shall be cleared and made good -within a year.
But there still remains the major portion of the scheme to be provided for, namely, the purchase of some 1,200 acres of land on the Northern and Eastern sides, of Stonehenge, in order to protect it in the future against the possibility of any houses, cafes, petrol pumps, garages, &c., being built within the view. An option of purchase of this land for approximately £25,000 has been obtained, and it is a matter of urgency that this opportunity of protecting Stonehenge andits surroundings
shall not be lost. • -
Stonehenge itself is already the property of the nation ; we therefore appeal to all English-speaking persons, and rely on their generous support, to enable us to. preserve to Stonehenge for all time....those suitable surroundings that its historical and
IttelieCilogieal associations so clearly deserve....
Donations Donations should be sent to the Secretary, The National Trust,-- 7- Buckingham palace Gardens, S.W. 1.—We are, STANLEY BALDWIN, CRAWFORD AND BALCARRES (President of the Society of Antiquaries), GREY op FALLODON (Vice-President ' of the National Trust), LIONEL EARLE. '
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