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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.
North Road and New Road in Saltash to Callington Road [164] / Liskeard Road [165] Originally ran from St Blazey to Fowey. Much of route upgraded to Class I status early on; the section from Par to Fowey became the A3082 by 1932 and the remainder renumbered to the A3084 in the early 1930s (although this also became part of the A3082 in 1935).
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 .
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]
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.
Corsham Court is an English country house in a park designed by Capability Brown. It is in the town of Corsham , 3 miles (5 km) west of Chippenham , Wiltshire , and is notable for its fine art collection, based on the nucleus of paintings inherited in 1757 by Paul Methuen from his uncle, Sir Paul Methuen , the diplomat.
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.
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]