Corsham is a historical market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath as well as 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for farming and later on, the woollen market, as well as stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains numerous noteworthy historical buildings, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the 2nd World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a significant administrative as well as production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous facilities both above ground and also in obsolete quarry tunnels. The parish consists of the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which goes to the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to obtain its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The community is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have actually entered the name later under Norman impact (perhaps caused by the recording of local pronunciation), when the town is reported to have been in the ownership 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 location at the time likewise had a huge woodland which was cleared to give way for more expansion. There is evidence that the town had actually been called "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name stays as that of a primary school. Among the communities that succeeded significantly from Wiltshire's woollen sell medieval times, it preserved its prosperity after the decrease of that trade with the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with underground mining works reaching the south as well as west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and also it shows up more probable to stem from a handful of Dutch workers that arrived in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of traditional Georgian style.