Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 nationwide path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) 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 agriculture as well as later on, the woollen sector, and also remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It consists of a number of noteworthy historic structures, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War, it came to be a significant administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with many facilities both above ground and in obsolete quarry passages. The parish consists of the towns of Gastard as well as Neston, which goes to 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 publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have gone into the name later on under Norman influence (potentially triggered by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), 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 location belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a large woodland which was cleared to give way for additional expansion. There is proof that the community had been called "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. One of the communities that succeeded considerably from Wiltshire's woollen trade in medieval times, it kept its prosperity after the decline of that profession through the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining works including the south as well as west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol went through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures 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 originate from a handful of Dutch workers who got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of timeless Georgian design.