Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, 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 traditionally a centre for farming and also later on, the wool market, as well as stays a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes a number of notable historic structures, amongst them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and also the Cold War, it ended up being a significant management and production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground as well as in disused quarry tunnels. The church includes the towns of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to derive its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The community is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have actually entered the name later under Norman impact (possibly brought on by the recording of regional pronunciation), when the town 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 also as Cosham as late as 1611 (on John Speed's map of Wiltshire). The Corsham area belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time likewise had a big forest which was removed to give way for further development. There is evidence that the town had been called "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name remains as that of a primary school. Among the communities that succeeded substantially from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it kept its prosperity after the decrease of that profession via the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining functions extending to the south and also west of Corsham. The primary 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 structures called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it appears most likely to derive from a handful of Dutch workers that showed up in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of traditional Georgian style.
