Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town as well as 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 farming and later, the wool sector, and remains an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes a number of remarkable historic buildings, among them the manor house of Corsham Court. During the 2nd World War and also the Cold War, it came to be a major management and production centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground as well as in obsolete quarry passages. The church consists of the villages of Gastard and also Neston, which goes to evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears 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' appears to have entered the name later on under Norman influence (possibly triggered by the recording of regional enunciation), when the town is reported to have actually remained in the property 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 belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time additionally had a big woodland which was gotten rid of to give way for additional growth. There is proof that the community had been called "Corsham Regis" due to its reputed organization with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name stays as that of a primary school. Among the communities that prospered greatly from Wiltshire's wool sell middle ages times, it maintained its prosperity after the decline of that trade via the quarrying of Bath stone, with underground mining functions extending to the south and also west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol went through the community. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings known as the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to support this name as well as it appears more probable to derive from a handful of Dutch employees who arrived in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of traditional Georgian design.