Forming part of the Hooper Estate (purchased in 1699 by William Hooper), the area now occupied by Hedgemead Park once housed several terraces of Georgian origin. Hoopers Court, Somerset Buildings (not to be confused with Somersetshire Buildings on Milsom St), Mullings Buildings and Somerset Terrace once stood here. Out of the 271 houses on the site, most were damaged or destroyed in landslips occurring between 1860 and 1881. Hedgemead Park (the area was once known as “edgemead” – the meadow on the edge, although some early maps show it as Hyde Park) dates from 1889 after the land was acquired by the Corporation in 1883.