Corsham is a historic market town as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath as well as 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for farming and later on, the wool market, and also continues to be a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It has numerous remarkable historic buildings, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the 2nd World War and the Cold War, it ended up being a significant management as well as production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground as well as in disused quarry passages. The church includes the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to acquire 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' appears to have actually entered the name later under Norman influence (perhaps triggered by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the community is reported to have actually been in the ownership 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 also had a big forest which was removed to make way for further development. There is proof that the town had been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the towns that thrived substantially from Wiltshire's wool trade in middle ages times, it preserved its prosperity after the decrease of that trade through the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining works including the south as well as west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol went through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as it appears more likely to derive from a handful of Dutch employees that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of traditional Georgian style.