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The name Corse signifies a Marsh or Bog; the district was, moreover, heavily wooded, as it remained until comparatively late, so that it is likely that settlement in Corse was also late. The name of Corse is of British origin does not weaken the likelihood, for the name may result from later Welsh influence. Corse is a rural parish of 2,220 people, lying on the tongue of land between the rivers Severn and Leadon, 6 miles NNW of Gloucester and 7 miles south west of Tewkesbury. The parish boundaries, which for the most part do not follow natural or ancient features, have long remained unchanged and are the same as in the north and the west side as in the 11 th century. In the Middle Ages, all of Gloucestershire between the Severn and the Leadon, formed part of Corse Chase, a vast hunting forest managed for deer by the Earls of Gloucester. Most of the parish of Corse remained heavily wooded until the seventeenth century.
Most of the parish is flat clay land, lying between 70 and 150ft on the keuper Marl, but on the east are the bold profiles of the Rhaetic beds underlying the lower lias, where the land rises steeply to the flat top of Corse Wood Hill at 281ft. In Corse itself there are two Lawn Farms, and a Lawn Road leading to Ashleworth. Woolridge at Hartpury, a common until 1809, was the southernmost of the four administrative divisions or walks of Corse Chase Corse was the name of a township in 1221 as was Oridge in 1248: they are both recorded as separate townships as late as 1287. The legacy of Corse's fascinating past as royal hunting forest.