Corsham

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Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in northwest Wiltshire country, England.
Of Interest:
Corsham Court. Fine National Trust house with superb collection of paintings put together by the late Lord Field Marshal Paul Methuen
Flemish weavers' cottages at the end of the high street.
Peacocks that walk the high street begging for food!
Alms houses established by Lady Margaret Hungerford and recently refurbished thanks to the efforts of Anne Aust and her colleagues.
Former site of the Bath Academy of Art
Location of many Bath-stone quarries used extensively by the military from the 1940's as storage areas. Rumoured that a mine in the neighbouring hamlet of Gastard was home to the Crown Jewels during the war.