Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

Travel writing

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

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
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