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Rotherham ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, at its confluence with the River Rother, between Sheffield and Doncaster. Rotherham, at 6 miles (10 km) from Sheffield City Centre, is surrounded by several smaller settlements, which together form the wider Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. According to the 2001 Census the population of the Borough of Rotherham is 248,175, and that of the Rotherham urban sub-area 117,262.
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Rotherham is a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
It is considered a safe Labour seat and has been represented by Denis MacShane since the 1994 by-election.
Rotherham constituency is one of three borough constituencies in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. It borders the constituencies of Rother...
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Rotherham is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. It is named for its main town, Rotherham. Despite a swing against Labour in 2008, it is one of the safest Labour councils in the country and now their only safe council in Yorkshire. Neighbouring districts Barnsley and Wakefield are also held by Labour but only by a majority of one in each case.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former county borough of Rotherham, with...
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Rotherham is a small village located in the Hurunui District of the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island. It is located between Culverden and Waiau on State Highway 70, and is near the south bank of the Waiau River, a popular location for trout and salmon fishing.
On 8 February 1886, a railway was opened to Culverden, but construction then stalled as debate raged about the final route and destination of the line. Some proposals included a line through Rotherham, and in 1914, work...
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Rotherham Rugby Union Football Club, or Rotherham Titans are a professional rugby union team from Rotherham, Yorkshire, currently playing in the English RFU Championship, having been relegated from the top-flight of professional rugby union in 2003-2004 after only one season, disappointingly without winning a single match.
At the end of that season, Mike Yarlett, the owner who had bankrolled the club's rise through the leagues, withdrew his backing, and extinction appeared to be a distinct...
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Thomas Rotherham, also known as Thomas (Scot) de Rotherham (24 August 1423 – 29 May 1500), was an English cleric and statesman.
Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Rotherham, of Brookgate in Rotherham, and his wife, Alice Scot. He was first educated as a young boy by a teacher of grammar, who came, according to Thomas, "I know not by what fate save it was the Grace of God". Afterwards he was sent to the newly founded Eton College in order to prepare for...
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Rotherham United Football Club (also known as 'The Millers/The Merry Millers') are an English professional football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, who compete in League Two, the fourth tier of English football.
The club's colours have traditionally been red and white, although these have evolved through history. Their current home strip is red and white; their away kit is light blue with white trim.
The Millers played all their home games at Millmoor in Rotherham from 1907 to 2008,...
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Arthur Rotherham (27 May 1869 – 3 March 1946) was an English rugby union scrum-half who was a member of the first official British Isles tour and was later capped for the England team.
Rotherham was born in Coventry in 1869 to Alexander Rotherham of Coundon Hall. He was educated at Uppingham School before being accepted into Trinity College, Cambridge in 1888, gaining a BA in 1891. Rotherham began his medical career at St Thomas' Hospital, London before becoming a house surgeon at Nottingham...
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Parkgate is located in South Yorkshire, England. It has since been consumed by its neighbour Rawmarsh, from which it has been indistinguishable since the early 20th century. Its name is said to originate from its location at the end point of the estate of the Clifton family of Rotherham.
There is a football club, Parkgate F.C., based in the suburb.
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Rotherham County Football Club was an English football club based in the town of Rotherham, Yorkshire. The club was founded in 1877 as Thornhill Football Club (later Thornhill United) becoming Rotherham County in 1905. It joined the Midland League in 1903, and stayed in that competition until it was abandoned for World War I. They won the Midland League title for four consecutive seasons, from 1911-12 to 1914-15 inclusive.
After the War, they were elected to the Football League when the league...
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Rotherham Town Football Club was the name of two English football clubs from Rotherham, Yorkshire. The second merged with Rotherham County in 1925 to form Rotherham United, who are still members of the Football League today.
The original club was founded in 1878 as Lunar Rovers becoming Rotherham in 1882, and eventually Rotherham Town. In 1889 the club became a founder member of the Midland League. They were champions in 1892 and 1893, and were subsequently elected to the Second Division of the...
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Baron Rotherham, of Broughton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 July 1910 for the former Liberal Member of Parliament for Salford North and Rotherham, William Holland. He had already been created a Baronet on 18 July 1907 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles became extinct on the death of the second Baron on 24 January 1950.
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Rotherham Giants are a rugby league team based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, playing in the North Midlands Division of the Rugby League Conference. They play their home matches at Herringthorpe Stadium.
Rotherham Giants joined the Northern Division of the Rugby League Conference in 2000 and won it in their second season. The club moved to the North Midlands Division in 2003 as the Conference expanded and new divisions were added. Rotherham left the Conference for the 2006 season and returned...
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Tony Rotherham is an English historian, living history re-enactor, actor, teacher, fight choreographer, stuntman, weapon expert, Robin Hood expert and Nottingham's official Robin Hood. He has been doing this kind of work since leaving university with an Ma Ba PhD in History, Drama and Art.
Rotherham trained at the Andrew Van Der Hauser Academy of Sword in Holland and learned a very high degree of combat. He worked in film and television as a fight choreographer and actor for many years....
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Gerard Alexander Rotherham, born at Coventry on May 28, 1899 and died at Bakewell, Derbyshire on January 31, 1985, was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Warwickshire in England and for Wellington in New Zealand.
But Rotherham's chief cricket fame was achieved as a schoolboy at Rugby School, where his record as a fast-medium bowler led to him being named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 1918 edition of Wisden, at a time when first-class cricket was...
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Auston Morgan Rotheram (June 11, 1876 – November 13, 1946) was an Irish polo player who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Sallymount House, County Westmeath and died in Cheltenham.
Together with Percy O'Reilly, John Hardress Lloyd and John Paul McCann, he was a member of the Ireland team that won a silver medal. The Ireland team was part of the Great Britain Olympic team.
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Bramley is a village and civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, situated roughly 4 miles from central Rotherham and 8 miles from Sheffield city centre. Bramley is bordered by Wickersley, Sunnyside, Ravenfield and Hellaby. Junction 1 of the M18 is situated in Bramley separating the suburb from that of Hellaby and Maltby, South Yorkshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 8,194.
At present Bramley is home to a number of shops and...
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Wingfield is a small area in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
Wingfield Business & Enterprise College (previously Wingfield Comprehensive School) is a specialist school in business and enterprise.
There is a shop, a bus route, there used to be a swimming baths, now closed.
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Rotherham Interchange is a bus station serving the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
The bus station is situated in Rotherhan town centre. There are 19 stands at the station which is served by First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Yorkshire, Stagecoach East Midlands, Dunn-Line and TM Travel.
Buses run from the bus station around Rotherham and as far afield as Doncaster, Worksop, Crystal Peaks, Sheffield, and Barnsley.
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Rotherham Central railway station is in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The station was originally named "Rotherham", becoming "Rotherham and Masborough" in January 1889 and finally "Rotherham Central" on 25 September 1950. (The town's other station was at one time known as "Masbrough and Rotherham".) Although Rotherham Masborough is now closed, Rotherham Central has retained its suffix.
This is the fourth station to be built, within the town centre, on the line from Sheffield Victoria. The first,...
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Rotherham Masborough railway station was the main railway station for Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England from the 1840s, until most of its trains were rerouted via Rotherham Central in 1987. It had four platforms, with a large sandstone station building on the eastern Platform Four, large iron and glass platform canopies, a fully-enclosed footbridge and wooden waiting rooms on the other platforms. It closed in 1988, except for a few football specials.
The station, designed by Francis Thompson,...
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HMS Rotherham was a R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed in 1942 and served during the Second World War. She is named for the English town of Rotherham.
Rotherham spent most of the war patrolling the waters of the East Indies and was present offshore during the Japanese surrender of Singapore. She survived the war with no combat damage or loss of life.
As the INS Rajput, it was instrumental in the sinking the Pakistani Navy's premier submarine PNS Ghazi, which had...
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Rotherham Westgate railway station was the eastern terminus of the five-mile long Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, the first passenger-carrying railway in the Sheffield/Rotherham area. Lying in central Rotherham on the Eastern bank of the River Don, it was a single platform terminus station that opened on 31 October 1838 and closed on 4 October 1952.
The original station building was a substantial stone affair on Westgate itself, from where passengers had to cross the tracks on a level...
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Thomas Rotherham College is a college for 16 to 19 year olds, founded in 1967. It is located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The college has its origins in the Rotherham Grammar School (founded 1483), whose buildings in took over. Its name is derived from the Fifteenth century cleric Thomas Rotherham. The current principal is Dr Richard Williams.
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The Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was a short railway between Sheffield and Rotherham and the first in the two towns.
In the early nineteenth century, when news broke of the building of the North Midland Railway, it was clear that George Stephenson would follow the gentle gradient of the Rivers Rother and Don, bypassing Sheffield. Stephenson known for his railway building techniques never built lines with gradients higher than 1 in 130. Despite representations by Sheffield people, who engaged...
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The Rotherham Tramway was a tramway system serving the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham. Service began on 31 January 1903 and ended on 13 November 1949.
The network of six lines spread across the town and was linked to the tramway networks of Sheffield and Mexborough & Swinton.
Rotherham tramways ran on six lines joining in the town's centre and serving Thrybergh, Silverwood Colliery and Broom Road to the East, Canklow and Sheffield to the South, Kimberworth to the West and Rawmarsh to the...
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Joseph Bryant Rotherham (1828 – 1910) was a British biblical scholar and minister of the Church of Christ. He was a prolific writer whose best-known work was the Emphasized Bible, a new translation that used "emphatic inversion" and a set of diacritical marks to bring out shades of meaning in the original text.
Rotherham was born at New Buckenham, Norfolk in the United Kingdom. His father was a Methodist preacher, and Rotherham followed in his footsteps, pastoring churches in Woolwich, Charlton...
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Rotherham Road railway station, named Park Gate until 1 November 1895, was a railway station situated in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was built close to the Rotherham borough boundary with access from Rawmarsh Road, Rotherham and served two rows of stone build terraced houses, "Parkgate Row", closest to the station and "Stone Row", actually on Rotherham Road, Parkgate.
The station, opened in September 1871, was built in the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's (MS&LR;) ...
