Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 nationwide path, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture 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, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. Throughout the 2nd World War and the Cold War, it ended up being a significant administrative and also production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with many establishments both over ground and also in obsolete quarry tunnels. The church includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which goes to the gates of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to obtain its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or village. The town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have gotten in the name later under Norman influence (potentially brought on by the recording of neighborhood pronunciation), when the community is reported to have actually remained in the ownership 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 location came from the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a large forest which was cleared to give way for further growth. There is proof that the town had been referred to as "Corsham Regis" as a result of its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and also this name stays as that of a primary school. One of the towns that thrived considerably from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it kept its success after the decrease of that trade through the quarrying of Bath rock, with below ground mining works reaching the south and also west of Corsham. The major turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed structures referred to as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name and it appears more probable to originate from a handful of Dutch workers that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of timeless Georgian style.
