During the medieval period, Corsham was owned by the Crown. It was leased and sold, passing through several ownerships. Between 1760 and 1780, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was engaged by the then owner, Paul Methuen, to work at Corsham as an architect and as a landscape gardener. Methuen's son later commissioned Humphry Repton to work on the landscape and John Nash to modify the house.
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