Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 nationwide route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and also later, the woollen industry, as well as stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes numerous notable historical structures, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War as well as the Cold War, it ended up being a major administrative and production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless facilities both above ground and in obsolete quarry tunnels. The church includes the towns of Gastard and Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to obtain its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have actually entered the name later under Norman impact (possibly triggered by the recording of neighborhood pronunciation), 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 belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time likewise had a big woodland which was gotten rid of to make way for more development. There is evidence that the town had been referred to as "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the communities that succeeded considerably from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it maintained its prosperity after the decline of that profession with the quarrying of Bath rock, with underground mining works encompassing the south and west of Corsham. The major 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 structures referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name and also it appears more probable 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 classic Georgian architecture.
