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stood at the first milestone, and here the traveller recruited his 
courage before venturing on his journey along the lonely roads, 
But the parish was already threatened. The builder had his 
eye upon it. Queen Square, George Street, and Wood Street 
had just been built. 
A large portion of the parish had once been open common 
land upon which the parishioners had the right of feeding their 
beasts, and one title deed mentions the right of common of 
pasture for 30 sheep and three rother beasts belonging to the 
owners of certain fields. 
From time to time various pieces seem to have been enclosed 
and divided among the existing landowners, for in this way only 
can J account for the pieces of land scattered about the parish 
divided into plots which belonged to owners of other property 
From this we still suffer. Each man built on his own estate, 
and as each was obliged to repair his own road he prevented his 
neighbour from passing through. Dafford’s Street, Dafford’s 
Buildings, Dafford’s Place, and Eldon Place are an example of 
this. 
The chief families were the Haines, Gally, and Hooper. 
The Haines family belonged to Albourne, Wilts, but 
various members of it lived in Berks where they had estates, 
principally near Newbury. Their Bath house stood at the 
corner of Princes Buildings, Bartlett Street being the road 
by the side of the house leading to a narrow field (54) belonging 
to them, and this field extended from Evans and Owen’s to the 
Julian Road. The adjacent Edgar Buildings, with the stables in 
the rear, stand on Town Acre. The block containing Princes 
Buildings, the east side of Bartlett Street, Alfred Street, and 
Lansdown Road represents the garden of the house, while on the 
other side of the road was Haines’ Vineyard, extending to Guinea 
Lane, and it covered the whole space with the exception of 
Fountain Buildings, then Fountain House, originally the site 
of St. Werburgh Church, which was Corporation property ; 

