Corsham is a historical market town as well as civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It goes to the south-western side of the Cotswolds, simply off the A4 national route, 28 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bristol, 8 miles (13 kilometres) northeast of Bath and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham. Corsham was traditionally a centre for farming and also later on, the woollen market, and continues to be an emphasis for quarrying Bath Stone. It includes numerous remarkable historical structures, amongst them the stately home of Corsham Court. Throughout the Second World War and also the Cold War, it ended up being a major administrative and also manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with various establishments both above ground and also in disused quarry tunnels. The parish consists of the towns of Gastard as well as Neston, which is at evictions of the Neston Park estate. Corsham shows up to derive its name from Cosa's ham, "ham" being Old English for homestead, or town. The community is referred in the Domesday book as Cosseham; the letter 'R' shows up to have entered the name later under Norman impact (potentially triggered by the recording of regional enunciation), when the town is reported to have actually been in the possession 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 location belonged to the King in Saxon times, the location at the time likewise had a large woodland which was cleared to make way for further growth. There is evidence that the town 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 towns that succeeded considerably from Wiltshire's wool sell middle ages times, it preserved its prosperity after the decline of that profession through the quarrying of Bath rock, with underground mining functions including the south as well as west of Corsham. The main turnpike road (currently the A4) from London to Bristol passed through the town. Numbers 94 to 112 of the High Street are Grade II * listed buildings called the "Flemish Weavers Houses", nevertheless there is little cogent evidence to sustain this name and it shows up more probable to stem from a handful of Dutch workers who got here in the 17th century. The Grove, opposite the High Street, is a typical example of timeless Georgian style.
