Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 nationwide path, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for farming and also later on, the woollen industry, and stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes numerous noteworthy historical structures, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and also the Cold War, it ended up being a major administrative as well as manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous facilities both over ground and also in obsolete quarry passages. The parish consists of the towns of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to acquire 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' appears to have entered the name later under Norman impact (perhaps brought on by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the community is reported to have actually remained in the belongings 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 big forest which was cleared to make way for additional development. There is evidence that the community had been known as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name continues to be as that of a primary school. Among the towns that prospered substantially from Wiltshire's wool trade in middle ages times, it preserved its prosperity after the decline of that trade through the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with below ground mining functions including the south and also west of Corsham. The primary 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 buildings referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as 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 traditional Georgian style.
