COUNTRY LIFE Save the Coast Wherever you may be along
the coast of Britain you find among the dwellers there an ardent desire for protection. It is like a personal insult to see barbed wire or warnings against trespassets, and much more to see dwellings set across the edge of the sea, whether close down to the water, as in the Isle of Wight, or up on the cliffs as near Looe in Corn- wall. If any land in the island should be nationalized it is the land that has one foot on sea and one on shore. Access to the sea is a national demand ; and no national park is so much desired as the very edge of the silver girdle. There are many gross offences against this privilege in existence ; but it is said and felt by many seaside dwellers in a number of counties that the desire to buy and sell patches of land bordering the sea is very rapidly on the increase. Even rough dunes become "building land," that is, a popular site for shacks.
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