Corsham
Corsham is a historical market town as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national route, 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 historically a centre for farming and also later, the wool market, and also continues to be an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes a number of notable historic buildings, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and the Cold War, it ended up being a significant administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground and also in obsolete quarry tunnels. The church consists of the towns of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to acquire its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have gone into the name later on under Norman influence (possibly triggered by the recording of local enunciation), when the town is reported to have actually remained 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 belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time additionally had a huge woodland which was gotten rid of to give way for further expansion. There is proof that the community had actually been known as "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name stays as that of a primary school. Among the communities that flourished substantially from Wiltshire's wool trade in medieval times, it kept its success after the decrease of that profession via the quarrying of Bath stone, with underground mining functions encompassing the south as well as west of Corsham. The major 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 and it appears more likely to stem 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 timeless Georgian style.
