Rotherham

Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England, built upon the River Don near the confluence of the Don and the Rother. It lies in the Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster. Its geographic coordinates are . The town is six miles from Sheffield City Centre. It is the main town in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham. Sheffield and Rotherham combined have a population of 821,466.

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While there were Iron Age and Roman settlements in the area now covered by the town, Rotherham itself was not founded until the Early Middle Ages. It soon established itself as a key Saxon market town, lying, as it does, on a Roman road near a forded part of the Don.

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In the 1480s the Rotherham-born Archbishop of York, Thomas Rotherham, instigated the building of a college (The College of Jesus) to rival the colleges of Cambridge and Oxford. This and the stylish new parish church of All Saints made Rotherham an enviable and modern town at the turn of the 16th century. But the college was dissolved under the reign of Edward VI - its assets stripped for the crown. By the end of the 16th century, Rotherham had fallen from a fashionable college-town to a notorious haven of gambling and vice.

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