15 Aug
Sun Tunnel
Bradford-on-Avon - BA15
Enquiry from: Stephen P
Start Date: Immediate
Replace 2 old roof lights which are degraded and beginning to leak
Material: any · Property: detached
Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town 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 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 kilometres) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for farming and later, the wool industry, and also remains an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains numerous notable historical structures, amongst them the manor house of Corsham Court. Throughout the 2nd World War as well as the Cold War, it came to be a major management and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground and in disused quarry tunnels. The church consists of the villages of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham appears to derive its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The town is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have gone into the name later on under Norman influence (potentially triggered by the recording of neighborhood enunciation), when the town is reported to have been in the property 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 huge woodland which was gotten rid of to make way for further growth. There is evidence that the town had been known as "Corsham Regis" because of its reputed association with Anglo-Saxon Ethelred of Wessex, and this name stays as that of a primary school. One of the communities that prospered substantially from Wiltshire's woollen sell middle ages times, it maintained its prosperity after the decline of that profession via the quarrying of Bath stone, with below ground mining functions reaching the south as well as west of Corsham. The primary turnpike road (now the A4) from London to Bristol went through the town. 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 as well as it appears more probable to stem from a handful of Dutch employees who got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a case in point of traditional Georgian architecture.
