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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Rotherham. You may be able to find further references to Rotherham in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | ROTHERHAM | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Rotherham.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Brinsworth | township | Bartholomew | BRINSWORTH | a township | Imperial | Catcliffe | township | Bartholomew | CATCLIFFE | a township | Imperial | Cinder Bridge | hamlet | Bartholomew | CINDER-BRIDGE | a hamlet | Imperial | Dalton Brook | village | Bartholomew | Greasbrough | town and township | Bartholomew | GREASBROUGH | a village and a chapelry | Imperial | Hill Top | hamlet | Bartholomew | HILL-TOP | a hamlet | Imperial | Holmes | hamlet with railway station | Bartholomew | HOLMES | a hamlet | Imperial | Ickles | hamlet | Bartholomew | ICKLES | a village | Imperial | JORDAN | a hamlet | Imperial | Kimberworth | township | Bartholomew | Masborough | ecclesiastical district and railway station | Bartholomew | NETHERFOLD | a hamlet | Imperial | ORGREAVE | a township | Imperial | PARKGATE | a village | Imperial | Tinsley | township and railway station | Bartholomew | TINSLEY | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Rotherham within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire | 6 | Celia Fiennes | 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth | 3 | William Camden | Yorkshire: West Riding | 1 | Charles Wesley | May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1- Apr. 27, 1747: Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol | 1 | Charles Wesley | Jan. 1 - Aug. 26, 1751: London to Bristol and the north | 1 | Charles Wesley | Sept. 17 - Nov. 5, 1756: Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley | 1 | John Wesley | 1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Masbrough | 0 | 2 |
Kimberworth | 0 | 2 |
Ickles | 0 | 2 |
Greasborough | 0 | 2 |
Eastwood | 0 | 1 |
Clifton | 0 | 1 |
Park Gate | 0 | 2 |
Brinsworth | 0 | 2 |
Brightside | 0 | 2 |
Scholes | 0 | 1 |
Tinsley | 0 | 2 |
Herringthorpe | 0 | 2 |
Rawmarsh | 0 | 2 |
Dalton | 0 | 2 |
Wincobank | 0 | 2 |
Carbrook | 0 | 2 |
Shire Green | 0 | 2 |
Thorpe Hesley | 0 | 2 |
Wentworth | 4 | 2 |
Catcliffe | 0 | 2 |