THE WELCOMBE ESTATE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter from the agents of the sale of the Welcombe Estate does not touch the issue. The danger is the destruction of the approach to Stratford-on-Avon by the Warwick road. The wholesale destruction of trees is directly threatened, and, indeed, encouraged. The town-planning scheme, over a small area immediately contiguous to Stratford, is of the smallest importance. It will not help to save a singularly English piece of country flanking the only unspoilt approach to Stratford. Shakespeare himself held the tithe of it ; and the landscape thereabouts was the very background of his mind, and appears in many plays. To destroy its character is to be guilty of high treason towards both Shakespeare and England.—
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