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tlbe Selbonte Society’s fll>ac)a3fne. 
No. 104. AUGUST, 1898. Vol. IX. 
SELBORNIANA. 
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or 
Natural Beauty. — A well-attended annual meeting of the mem- 
bers of this Trust was held at Grosvenor House on July 20, 
under the presidency of the Duke of Westminster. A most 
satisfactory Report was presented, from which it appeared that 
during the year the Trust has acquired the Joiners’ Hall, Salis- 
bury, and Toy’s Hill, Kent. Reference was also made to the 
desirability of securing Tintern Abbey, which is about to be 
sold. Interesting speeches were made by the Chairman, Canon 
Rawnsley, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir John Hibbert, Dr. Longstaff, 
Lord Crewe, the Bishop of Bristol, Mr. Waterhouse, R.A., and 
Sir Robert Hunter. 
Golder’s Hill. — This beautiful addition to Hampstead Heath 
is now virtually secured. The thirty-six acres are surrounded by 
a belt of fine elms, and include a fine modern house, beautiful 
lawn, gardens, pretty piece of water, and some well-timbered 
meadows, skirting the West Heath from the hamlet of North 
End down to below the bottom of the valley in which is the Leg- 
of-mutton Pond. The house and lawn command a lovely view 
towards Harrow. The Committee of the Hampstead Heath 
Extension Scheme, under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Harben, 
offered a guarantee of £"35,000, but the bidding at the sale going 
beyond that sum, Mr. Barratt, with great public spirit, secured 
the property at his own risk for rather more than £"38,000. To 
meet this sum, nearly £14,000 has been raised from individual 
donors, the Hampstead Vestry have voted £10,000, and the 
London County Council, £"12,000. Contributions are also ex- 
pected from the Vestries of St. Pancras and Marylebone, so 
that Londoners may be congratulated on the acquisition of this 
most valuable addition to their most popular “ lung.” The 
