A CAMPAIGN has been launched to ensure a meadow is preserved for the future - after it emerged National Trust is reportedly considering selling up. Clayton Meadow at the Glebe Estate on Studland was gifted to the Trust in 1998 by Dame Barbara Clayton, a pathologist who was passionate about wildflowers, with the intention of maintaining it as she had. However, the organisation is now looking into potentially selling the building plot, which was never developed, to raise funds - much to the dismay of locals. Mike Cheesman, who lives adjacent to the meadow, said: “I believe the NT’s motives are to maximise their revenues at the expense of the loss of this rare piece of habitat.
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