Corsham is a historical market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 nationwide route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and also 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later on, the wool industry, as well as remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It consists of numerous notable historical buildings, amongst them the stately home of Corsham Court. Throughout the 2nd World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a significant administrative and also production 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 is at evictions 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' shows up to have entered the name later on under Norman impact (potentially caused by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the community is reported to have remained in the possession 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 belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a huge woodland which was cleared to make way for further growth. There is evidence that the community had actually 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 towns that flourished significantly from Wiltshire's woollen trade in middle ages times, it preserved its success after the decline of that profession through the quarrying of Bathroom rock, with below ground mining functions including the south as well as west of Corsham. The main 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 structures known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", however there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as it shows up more likely to derive from a handful of Dutch employees that got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of traditional Georgian architecture.
