Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 nationwide course, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) 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 sector, as well as remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It has a number of notable historic structures, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the Second World War as well as the Cold War, it came to be a significant management and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various facilities both above ground and in obsolete quarry passages. The parish consists of the towns of Gastard and Neston, which goes to evictions 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 town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have entered the name later under Norman impact (perhaps brought on by the recording of local pronunciation), when the community 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 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 likewise had a big forest which was gotten rid of to make way for further expansion. There is proof that the town had been referred to as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name remains as that of a primary school. One of the communities that flourished considerably from Wiltshire's wool sell middle ages times, it maintained its success after the decline of that trade through the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining works reaching the south and also west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol went through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name as well as it appears more probable to stem from a handful of Dutch employees that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of classic Georgian style.
