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Corsham - SN13
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Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later, the wool industry, as well as stays a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several remarkable historic buildings, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and also the Cold War, it became a significant management and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both over ground and in obsolete quarry passages. The church consists of the towns of Gastard as well as Neston, which goes to the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to derive 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 entered the name later under Norman influence (possibly caused by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the town is reported to have been in the belongings of the Earl of Cornwall. Corsham is recorded as Coseham in 1001, as Cosseha in 1086, and also as Cosham as late as 1611 (on John Speed's map of Wiltshire). The Corsham area came from the King in Saxon times, the location at the time additionally had a large forest which was gotten rid of to give way for additional growth. There is evidence that the community had actually been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name continues to be as that of a primary school. Among the communities that flourished significantly from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it kept its prosperity after the decrease of that trade via the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with underground mining works reaching the south and 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 buildings called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as it shows up most likely to originate from a handful of Dutch employees that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of classic Georgian style.
