Corsham is a historic market community and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 nationwide path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for farming and later on, the woollen market, as well as remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several significant historical structures, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War, it ended up being a significant administrative and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground and also in obsolete quarry passages. The church consists of the towns of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to obtain its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have entered the name later under Norman impact (possibly triggered by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the community is reported to have remained 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 area at the time also had a huge forest which was gotten rid of to make way for more growth. There is proof that the community had actually been known as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name stays as that of a primary school. One of the communities that succeeded greatly from Wiltshire's wool sell medieval times, it preserved its prosperity after the decline of that trade via the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with below ground mining functions reaching the south and also west of Corsham. The major turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol travelled through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it appears more probable to derive from a handful of Dutch workers that showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of traditional Georgian architecture.