Corsham
Corsham is a historical market community and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 nationwide course, 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) 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 and later, the wool industry, and also remains an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes a number of notable historical structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the Second World War as well as the Cold War, it ended up being a significant administrative as well as production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless facilities both over ground and also in disused quarry passages. The church includes the villages of Gastard and also Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears 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 actually gone into the name later under Norman impact (perhaps brought on by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the town is reported to have actually remained in the belongings 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 area belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a big forest which was gotten rid of to make way for further development. There is evidence that the town had actually been referred to as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, as well as this name stays as that of a primary school. Among the towns that thrived substantially from Wiltshire's wool trade in medieval times, it kept its success after the decline of that trade with the quarrying of Bath rock, with underground mining works extending to the south and west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol travelled through the town. 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 it shows up most likely to stem 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 classic Georgian style.
