Corsley is a hamlet and civil parish 3 miles (5 km) west of Warminster in Wiltshire, England.

"[3] In 1232, Henry III granted the manor of Corsley to Godfrey de Crawcumb, with the right to hold an annual fair on 20 July (the feast of St Margaret) and a weekly market on Fridays.

[5] In 1544, after the monastery at Maiden Bradley had been dissolved, the manor of Whitbourne was sold and the chapel of St John there disappeared.

[9] After the death of Thynne in 1580, his widow, known as Dame Dorothy, lived at Manor Farm as a dower house.

At the same time, Sir Walter Raleigh, who was in disgrace, was living at a farm near St Margaret's parish church, Corsley.

[19] Wesleyan Methodists were active from 1769[2] and a chapel was built at Lane End in 1849, with a schoolroom added late in the century.

[21] Money to pay for the land and the building was raised by the preacher, Richard Parsons of Chapmanslade, who continued as pastor until his death in 1853.

[24] Later residents include (from the 1890s) Maud Davies, whose Life in an English Village, published in 1909, is a pioneering sociological study.

It was sold to the Longleat estate in 1854;[2] in the 1930s it was occupied by Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, then Viscount Weymouth, and his first wife Daphne.