Corsley

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Corsley is a hamlet and civil parish in West Wiltshire, England, 3 miles NW of Warminster, at grid reference ST828467.

There is no single village, but eight separate hamlets: Corsley, three Whitbournes, Longhedge, Corsley Heath (generally regarded as the centre of the parish), Lane End and Lyes Green. Corsley Mill is now in Chapmanslade parish.

Much of the parish was originally part of the Longleat Estate and part of the Longleat Safari Park lies within the parish boundaries.

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Manor Farm was built by Sir John Thynne in the 1550s while rebuilding Longleat House, and he lived here for five years after Longleat had been damaged by fire in 1567.

Corsley House was built for the Barton family in 1814, designed by the Bath architect John Pinch as a Greek revival mansion around a previous house.

Sturford Mead was built in 1820 by John Pinch in the Greek revival style for H.A. Fussell, a clothier and dyer from Frome. It was sold to the Longleat estate in 1854: in the 1930s it was occupied by Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, then Viscount Weymouth, and his first wife Daphne. The gardens were designed by Russell Page.