Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national course, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture as well as later on, the wool market, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes a number of noteworthy historic structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War as well as the Cold War, it ended up being a major management and production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless facilities both over ground as well as in disused quarry tunnels. The parish includes the towns of Gastard as well as Neston, which goes to 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 community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have actually entered the name later on under Norman impact (perhaps caused by the recording of local pronunciation), when the town is reported to have actually remained in the possession 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 additionally had a big woodland which was gotten rid of to give way for additional development. There is proof that the community had actually been referred to as "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name stays as that of a primary school. One of the towns that flourished substantially from Wiltshire's wool sell medieval times, it preserved its success after the decrease of that profession via the quarrying of Bathroom rock, with underground mining functions including the south and west of Corsham. The main 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 structures called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as it appears more likely to stem from a handful of Dutch workers that showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of classic Georgian style.
