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Notes on an Old Map of the Parish of Walcot. 
By the Rev. C. W. SHickiE, M.A. 
(Read January 31st, 1900). 
The Roman Vallum stood at the point where, as Collinson 
says, the Fosse and Julian Road “‘divaricate” and gave the 
name to Walcot. The Church was built on the site of the 
Roman Fort, of which the extent is probably marked by the 
present Globe. 
There is no historic record of this. It is only conjecture, and 
- to preserve the memory of matters of much less importance is 
{ _ the object of this paper. 
In every old town we find some of the streets and courts 
called by quaint and uncommon names. Christian names and 
surnames abound which had some reason for their introduction, 
- while the names of birds, animals, and trees were chosen for 
- some special reason. Modern civilisation is sweeping away the 
_ old courts—new names are adopted for the streets—and even the 
old title deeds of estates, which up to the present time have often 
given the clew to the old names, are disappearing. 
These deeds often furnish the pedigree of families forgotton 
and extinct, and from them we obtain information of great 
archeological value. 
An inspection of the plan of the Parish of Walcot made in 
A.D. 1740 shows the change that has taken place in this great 
suburb of Bath within a century and a half. Eighty houses and 
two cloth mills are said to have been the only buildings in 
Walcot in A.D. 1730, and 10 years later but little alteration had 
taken place. Most of the houses lay near the Church, with 
_ gardens on the outside sloping down to the river, on the other 
extending to the steep cliff of Edgemead. 
. ; The junction of Snow Hill and the London Road was the limit 
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