Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for agriculture as well as later, the wool industry, and stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several significant historical structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a major administrative as well as manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with many facilities both above ground and in obsolete quarry tunnels. The parish consists of the villages of Gastard and also Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to acquire its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The town is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have actually gone into the name later under Norman impact (possibly caused by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the town is reported to have actually 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 came from the King in Saxon times, the location at the time additionally had a huge woodland which was cleared to give way for more development. 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, and this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the towns that thrived substantially from Wiltshire's wool sell medieval times, it kept its success after the decline of that profession through the quarrying of Bathroom rock, with below ground mining works extending to the south as well as west of Corsham. The main 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 structures referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it shows up more probable to derive from a handful of Dutch employees who showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of classic Georgian design.
