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Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. [3] It is at the southwestern edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route. It is 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Swindon, 20 miles (32 km) east of Bristol, 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Bath, and 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Chippenham.
Whitley is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England, which had a population of 1,914 at the 2011 census. [1] The village lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Melksham on the B3353 Shaw to Corsham road. [2]
MOD Corsham (formerly Basil Hill Barracks) is a Ministry of Defence establishment located between the towns of Corsham and Box in Wiltshire, England. Since 1998 the site's principal activities concern British Armed Forces and MOD information and communications technology and information warfare .
It is historically known as the Bath Road with newer sections including the Great West Road and Portway. The road was once the main route from London to Bath, Bristol and the west of England and formed, after the A40 , the second main western artery from London.
For Church of England purposes, Gastard is an ecclesiastical parish and has its own parish church dedicated to St John the Baptist, although now part of the united benefice of Greater Corsham and Lacock. [9] The church, which dates from 1912, [7] still has a morning service every Sunday. [1]
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Corsham had extensive and much-used sidings on both sides of the track to the west of the station, with a goods shed and a loading dock. The main goods traffic was stone from the quarries under Box Hill, which was brought to the lineside by a tramway system of 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 750 mm ) gauge.
Biddestone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Biddestone and Slaughterford, [2] in northwest Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) west of Chippenham and 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Corsham.