sentences:  The canal referred to is now the lake in Raphael Park, which was recorded on the 1888 Ordnance Survey map as Black's Canal after the Black family; a map prepared for Alexander Black in 1807 clearly shows the spring.An investigation into the spring in 1910 recorded that it had "been drained, filled up and turfed about 4 years ago".The later Gidea Hall was of brick.