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A history of Hilmarton Church
On the 27th July the Corsham Civic Society is visiting Hilmarton, an easily neglected village north of Calne, which has close connections with Corsham that may have been generally forgotten about.
Tributes paid to Ian Storey
Ian Storey joined the Civic Society committee in spring 2011. We welcomed him for his love of and commitment to Corsham. He was well-known in the town due to his position with the Chamber of Commerce, his work with the Martingate Centre and his successful efforts to...
Corsham High Street 1949
In January 2012 the Society was contacted by Mrs Hilary Corke who, when looking through the photographs of her late father, came across a number annotated on the back with “ Reconstruction of High...
Measuring the heights of the Neale Family at the Mansion House, Corsham, 1722-51
The first ‘mansion house’ to be built in Corsham by a rich and successful clothier in the last great boom of the broadcloth and/or medley cloth industry in the first half of the eighteenth century was the ‘Mansion House’, as it was called at the time, and as it has been called ever since.
Charles Dickens, Pickwick and the ‘Pickwick Papers’
As we remember the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, we also think of his second book that he wrote, namely, ‘Pickwick Papers’ and its association with our Pickwick. Charles Dickens first visited Bath in 1835, as a young newspaper reporter...
The First St. Bartholomew’s Church Magazines 1883
Earlier this year a book was donated to the CADT which was discovered to contain copies of the first ever St. Bart's Church Magazines published in our parish dated 1883. It was introduced by the Rev. George Linton, the cover was printed by Lewin Spackman and the...