Corsham
Corsham is a historical market town and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 nationwide route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for farming as well as later on, the woollen market, as well as stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It consists of a number of remarkable historical structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the Second World War as well as the Cold War, it became a major administrative as well as manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with many facilities both above ground as well as in obsolete quarry tunnels. The parish includes the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to obtain 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 influence (perhaps brought on by the recording of regional pronunciation), when the community is reported to have actually been in the property 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 area came from the King in Saxon times, the location at the time additionally had a large woodland which was cleared to make way for additional growth. There is evidence that the town had been called "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name continues to be as that of a primary school. One of the communities that flourished substantially from Wiltshire's wool sell middle ages times, it maintained its success after the decline of that profession with the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with below ground mining works including the south and also west of Corsham. The major turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name as well as it shows up more probable to derive 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 style.
