Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 nationwide route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath as well as 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for farming and also later, the woollen sector, and stays a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several noteworthy historic structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and also 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 disused quarry passages. The parish consists of the towns of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to derive 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 gotten in the name later on under Norman impact (perhaps triggered by the recording of local pronunciation), when the community is reported to have remained 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 belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a huge woodland which was gotten rid of to make way for additional development. There is proof that the community had actually been referred to as "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the communities that thrived greatly from Wiltshire's woollen sell medieval times, it maintained its prosperity after the decrease of that trade with the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with below ground mining works encompassing the south and west of Corsham. The major turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it shows up more probable to derive from a handful of Dutch employees who showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of classic Georgian style.
