Rotherham

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Weir on the River Don at Rotherham geograph.org.uk 5914895, Rotherham, England, United Kingdom

Rotherham town centre, September 2016, Rotherham, England, United Kingdom

About Rotherham

Rotherham grew where the River Rother meets the Don, and for two centuries its foundries, coal pits and steelworks fed the industry of South Yorkshire. The town centre still keeps a striking medieval core: the soaring Perpendicular church that is now Rotherham Minster, and a rare fifteenth-century chapel built on the old stone bridge over the Don.

Industry left big marks and some surprising second lives. The vast Templeborough steelworks became Magna, a hands-on science centre, and former open-cast mining land at Rother Valley is now a country park of lakes and watersports. Clifton Park, with its Georgian house museum, has been the town's favourite green space since Victorian times, and on match days the New York Stadium fills the centre with Rotherham United fans.

The wider borough holds grander history. Wentworth Woodhouse, with one of the longest facades of any English country house, stands in a landscape dotted with follies such as Keppel's Column, while the Cistercian ruins of Roche Abbey lie in a wooded valley near Maltby. Sheffield is minutes away by tram-train.

Best seasonMay to September for parks and country houses

Ideal stay2 days

ArrivingTrains to Rotherham Central, tram-train from Sheffield, M1 and M18 motorways

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Landmarks 2

Rotherham Minster

All Saints, granted Minster status in 2004, is a Grade I listed showpiece of Perpendicular Gothic that Pevsner called one of the l...

Keppel's Column

This 35-metre column near Scholes was built for the Marquess of Rockingham of Wentworth Woodhouse and dedicated to Admiral Augustu...

History 4

Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge

Built in 1483 on the old stone bridge across the River Don, this small chapel is one of only a handful of medieval bridge chapels...

Boston Castle

Perched on a hill above the town in Boston Park, this small castellated lodge was built in the 1770s for the Earl of Effingham, wh...

Wentworth Woodhouse

Few houses in Britain match the scale of Wentworth Woodhouse, whose Palladian east front is often described as the longest of any...

Roche Abbey

Founded by Cistercian monks in 1147, Roche Abbey lies in a secluded limestone valley near Maltby. Its soaring Gothic transept wall...

Museums 2

Clifton Park Museum

Housed in Clifton House, a Georgian mansion built in the 1780s for the ironmaster Joshua Walker, the town's museum tells the story...

Magna Science Adventure Centre

The cavernous former Templeborough steelworks, once among the largest in Europe, reopened in 2001 as Magna, a hands-on science cen...

Parks 3

Clifton Park, Rotherham

Opened as a public park in 1891, Clifton Park is Rotherham's best-loved green space, with wide lawns, mature trees, formal flower...

Rother Valley Country Park

Created on former open-cast coal workings on the border with Sheffield, Rother Valley Country Park spreads around several large la...

Thrybergh Country Park

Built around a former reservoir on the north-east side of town, Thrybergh Country Park is a calmer alternative to the bigger parks...

Entertainment 1

New York Stadium, Rotherham

Rotherham United, nicknamed the Millers, have played since 2012 at this compact stadium on the site of a former foundry beside the...

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