Corsham is a historical market town and also civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national course, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for agriculture as well as later, the wool sector, and continues to be an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It consists of numerous remarkable historical buildings, among them the stately home of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and the Cold War, it became a significant management and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with countless establishments both above ground and also in obsolete quarry passages. The church consists of the villages of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to the gates 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 town is referred in the Domesday publication as Cosseham; the letter 'R' appears to have gotten in the name later on under Norman impact (perhaps triggered by the recording of regional enunciation), when the community is reported to have actually 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 came from the King in Saxon times, the area at the time also had a big woodland which was removed to make way for more expansion. There is evidence that the community had been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name remains as that of a primary school. One of the communities that flourished greatly from Wiltshire's woollen trade in medieval times, it kept its success after the decline of that trade with the quarrying of Bathroom stone, with below ground mining functions including the south and also west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to support this name and it shows up more probable 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 traditional Georgian style.
