10 Jul
Electric | Testing & Inspection
Corsham - SN13
Enquiry from: Steve S
Start Date: Immediate
PAT testing at site required
Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply 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 and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later on, the woollen market, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains a number of notable historic buildings, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and the Cold War, it ended up being a major administrative and also manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both above ground as well as in disused quarry passages. The parish consists of the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to acquire its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The town is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have gone into the name later under Norman impact (possibly brought on by the recording of regional enunciation), when the community is reported to have remained in the belongings 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 gotten rid of to make way for further expansion. There is proof that the town had been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name continues to be as that of a primary school. Among the towns that succeeded substantially from Wiltshire's wool trade in middle ages times, it maintained its success after the decrease of that profession via the quarrying of Bath stone, with underground mining works including the south and also west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol went through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name as well as it shows up most likely to stem from a handful of Dutch workers that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of timeless Georgian design.
