Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national course, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for agriculture and also later on, the woollen industry, as well as continues to be a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes numerous significant historic structures, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and also the Cold War, it became a major administrative and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various facilities both above ground as well as in disused quarry passages. The church consists of the towns of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to derive its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have gone into the name later on under Norman influence (possibly caused by the recording of regional enunciation), when the community is reported to have remained in the possession 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 location came from the King in Saxon times, the location at the time also had a huge forest which was gotten rid of to make way for additional development. There is proof that the community had actually been referred to as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name remains as that of a primary school. One of the communities that prospered considerably from Wiltshire's wool trade in middle ages times, it preserved its success after the decrease of that trade through the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with underground mining works including the south and also west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and also it shows up most likely to stem from a handful of Dutch employees that showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of traditional Georgian design.
