Corsham
Corsham is a historic market community and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national path, 28 miles (45 km) 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 traditionally a centre for agriculture and also later on, the woollen industry, and stays an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It has several remarkable historic buildings, amongst them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a major administrative and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless facilities both over ground and also in obsolete quarry passages. The parish consists of the villages of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to the gates 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 community is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have actually gone into the name later on under Norman influence (perhaps triggered by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the community is reported to have 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 area belonged to the King in Saxon times, the area at the time additionally had a large forest which was gotten rid of to make way for further development. There is proof that the community had actually been called "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name continues to be as that of a primary school. Among the towns that succeeded significantly from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it preserved its success after the decline of that trade with the quarrying of Bathroom rock, with underground mining works encompassing the south as well as 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 buildings referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nonetheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it shows up more likely to originate from a handful of Dutch employees that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of timeless Georgian design.
