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and the small piece cut off by the steps at the side of Guinea 
Lane School. The Paragon was then called Back Lane. 
Their property was scattered all over the parish. They owned 
the still comparatively open space between Claremont Road, 
Brookleaze, and St. Saviour’s Road, together with the meadows 
opposite the Cleveland Baths, now the ground of the Grosvenor 
Tennis Club ; but their chief possession was King’s Mead, which 
included the site of Milk Street, Green Park, and Norfolk Crescent. 
This property Thos. Hayne bought in 1638 of Mr. William Snygg, 
the possessor of the Manor of Walcot, together with the lands 
before mentioned and the “ Meadows called Hayes” for £2,480. 
~ The fishery of the River Avon on the west side of Kingsmead 
was included in the sale. Queen Square had been recently 
built, Chapel Row being only a narrow street, and the principal 
road was intended to be through Palace Yard and thence 
along the Rope Walk through what is now Green Park in a 
_ direct line to the Ferry, the remains of which still exist in Bell 
Mead Place, Lower Bristol Road, opposite what is now wrongly 
_ ¢alled the Green Park Tavern, but was originally the Green 
Tree, and marked the spot where the path to Inglescombe 
~ erossed the Lower Bristol Road. Cedar Walk marks the line 
of the footpath. 
Another family was named Gally. They inhabited a house on 
the riverside of Walcot Street and owned Weston Cross, now 
 Cranwells, Whitwells, part of Mutcombe, Salt Rock, and Brimble 
Sleight, which I have not yet been able to identify, Pooke’s 
_ Tenement and field, Coffin’s Batch and several other pieces of land 
_ inthe East and Westfield of Walcot together with Rockylands, of 
; : which the name remains in Rock House, although I think the spot 
is more nearly identified with Lansdown East. They also owned 
_ the narrow strip of land by the side of the High Common, now 
_ covered by Cavendish Place and Crescent, and then called Gally’s 
_Lyde, but Lyde House stands on a field called Gally’s Croniels 
“or Cranwells. Lyde means a stream and relates to that which 
