Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Rotherham, a market-town and municipal borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 5 miles N.E. of Sheffield, is at the junction of the Rother and Don, a bridge connecting it with Masborough. There is a fine fifteenth-century church, a grammar-school (founded 1483), a free library, and two parks. Iron goods', chemicals, earthenware, glass, soap, and starch are manufactured.