Corsham is a historic market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for farming as well as later on, the wool sector, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It has a number of remarkable historical buildings, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and the Cold War, it came to be a major administrative as well as manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground and in disused quarry tunnels. The church includes the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to acquire its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The community is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have gotten in the name later on under Norman influence (potentially brought on by the recording of neighborhood pronunciation), when the community is reported to have actually been 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 additionally had a large woodland which was removed to give way for further development. There is evidence that the town had actually been known as "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name continues to be as that of a primary school. One of the towns that succeeded considerably from Wiltshire's wool trade in middle ages times, it kept its success after the decline of that trade with the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining works extending to the south as well as west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name and also it shows up most likely to derive 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 timeless Georgian design.