Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture as well as later, the woollen market, and also continues to be a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains numerous noteworthy historical structures, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a significant management and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless facilities both over ground and in obsolete quarry tunnels. The church includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to acquire its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have gotten in the name later on under Norman influence (perhaps caused by the recording of regional enunciation), when the community is reported to have actually remained in the belongings of the Earl of Cornwall. Corsham is recorded as Coseham in 1001, as Cosseha in 1086, and as Cosham as late as 1611 (on John Speed's map of Wiltshire). The Corsham location belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time additionally had a huge forest which was removed to make way for additional expansion. There is evidence that the community had actually been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the communities that thrived significantly from Wiltshire's woollen sell middle ages times, it maintained its prosperity after the decline of that profession through the quarrying of Bath rock, with underground mining works encompassing the south and also west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol travelled through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and also it shows up more likely to stem from a handful of Dutch employees that arrived in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of timeless Georgian design.
