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Moving to Rotherham?

Perched at the point where the River Don meets the River Rother in South Yorkshire, Rotherham is pretty and unassuming. Established in the Early Middle Ages on a Roman road, it quickly became a key Saxon market town. By the time of the Norman Conquest, it was at the centre of a large parish, and the imposition of Nigel Fossard as an absentee landlord had little effect on its fortunes: the market continued to flourish, bolstered by the efforts of the monks of Rufford Abbey. In the 1480s the Archbishop of York established The College of Jesus, which was supposed to rival the universities at Oxford and Cambridge. The first brick building in Yorkshire, the college brought a cachet and elegance to the town that was sadly lost when King Edward VI stripped it of its status and confiscated its wealth. By the end of the sixteenth century Rotherham had become notorious for gambling and vice.

The Industrial Revolution revitalised the place: although Rotherham iron had been prized for its strength since Roman times, it was coal power that gave the impetus to improve navigation along the river and build iron and steel foundries. The cast iron industry expanded massively, with over fifteen large companies based in the town by the 1850s. The wrought iron plates for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s famous ship the SS Great Eastern were made here, as was Joseph Foljambe’s Rotherham Plough. The steel industry also boomed: Steel, Peech and Tozer's massive Templeborough steelworks, at its peak, over a mile long, employing 10,000 workers, and housing six electric arc furnaces producing 1.8 million tonnes of steel a year. The operation finally closed down in 1993. Today Rotherham is still one of the UK’s leading manufacture centres, producing steel for Renault’s Formula One cars and the Airbus A380 superjumbo planes.

Today, many of Rotherham’s historic buildings are being restored in the Rotherham Renaissance project. The Imperial Buildings is one of the oldest market areas in the town and now houses a collection of cafés and shops. One of four surviving chapel bridges in the UK is the fifteenth century Chapel of Our Lady of Rotherham Bridge, built of sandstone on three levels. Clifton Park Museum has an excellent and whimsical collection and the curators are particularly proud of their collection of Rockingham pottery, including one of only two specimens of the porcelain ‘Rhinoceros Vase’. Golden Rotherham Minster is the finest perpendicular church in England, and has wonderful Norman and medieval carvings. Roche Abbey, just outside the town, is a stunning ruined Cistercian abbey. The remains of the College of Jesus are also well worth a visit.

Science fans will enjoy a trip to the Catcliffe glassworks, which features a unique glass cone that is one of the oldest surviving examples in Europe. The Magna Science Adventure Centre, built in a former steelworks, is very appealing to children, who particularly enjoy the “Big Melt” display showing how steel is made.