These are a places of the eastern portal of the easily-known Box Tunnel and the obsolete entrance to Burrow Quarry, which utilized to become seeable off Pockeredge Cause. A largely obsolete emergency government wartime headquarters, called Hawthorn or Turnstile is located in the front yard.

Corsham has many local shops around its settlement centre by owning a freshly Martingate Centre that has been redeveloped. A thave has its own festival. It besides has the stately house, Corsham Court (part of the Methuen estate), and far-famed almshouses which were recently featured on the BBC's Restoration television series.

Camilla Parker Bowles (who late married Charles, Prince of Wales, and assumed the title Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall) is a noted previous resident of Corsham; while she moved to the nearby village of Lacock in 1995, she sold her house to the Pink Floyd musician Nick Mason.

A town of Corsham was a inspiration for Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers. A title Pickwick is belike to develop came from either that of the nearby domestic, Pickwick Lodge Domestic. This metropolitan area is the a share of Corsham which is on the A4, once a highway from either London to Bristol. Corsham is besides a residence town of experimental rock outfit, The Bears.

There was when the priory in Corsham, which was destroyed, then built in by the Georgian house (now Heywood School) placed in Priory Street.