Corsham is a historical market town and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later on, the wool market, and also stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It has numerous remarkable historical buildings, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War, it came to be a major management and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with many facilities both above ground and in obsolete quarry tunnels. The parish includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to obtain 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' shows up to have actually gone into the name later under Norman impact (possibly brought on by the recording of neighborhood pronunciation), when the community 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 area belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time additionally had a big woodland which was removed to give way for further development. There is proof that the town had actually been known as "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name continues to be as that of a primary school. Among the communities that thrived considerably from Wiltshire's woollen sell medieval times, it kept its success after the decline of that trade through the quarrying of Bath rock, with below ground mining works extending to the south as well as west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol travelled through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name as well as it shows up more likely to originate from a handful of Dutch employees who arrived in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of traditional Georgian architecture.