ROTHERHAM.

E.OTHEEHAM ig a municipal and county borough as well as Southwark Bridge, was produced. Several and market town, on the navigable river Don, 6 miles of the existing foundries are celebrated for the manu­ N.E. by E. from Sheffield, 12 from Doncaster, 12 facture of st{)ve grates, and wheels, tyres, axles and from Ba.rnsley and 163 from London, and is the other rolling stoc~k and railway iron work are now bead of.a poor law union, county court district, petty extensively manufactured at the large ironworks of .sessional division and rural deanery, in the Southern Masbrough, the Holmes, Ickles and Parkgate, the parliamentary division of the West Riding, rural latter producing also armour-plates for ships of war. ~eanery of Rotherham, Sheffield archdeaconry, and -diocese of Y ark. The PARISH is divided in to nine The w·EEKLY MARKET, held on Monday, is supplied townships, viz.: Rotherham, Brinsu·orth, Oatcliffe, with corn in sample, cattle and pigs. A smaller ·part of Dalton, Greasbrough, Kirnberworth (including market for butter, poultry, &c., is held on Friday, Masbrougk and the llolmes), Orgreave, Tinsley, and but the principal meat or butchers' market is held on ,part of Wkiston. The BoROUGH in 1891 contained Saturday. A "statute," or hiring fair for servants, '.:'1-2,061 persons and 7,996 inhabited houses, and in is held on the first Monday in November; a fair is 1.901 54,349 and 10,804 respectively. At the bottom held OD vVhit Monday, for pleasure, &c., and another of Bridgegate the Don is crossed by a fine old BRIDGE on December 1, for cattle. The pres€nt Shambles, Yorkshire line from Rotherham .bestowed by him upon his relative, Robert, Earl of to Domaster, opened in August, 1869, now belongs to .Moreteyne or Moreton, under whom it was held by this Company. On the outskirts of the borough, to ()lle ~igel, and from his descendants passed to the de the north-east, is Rotherham !Wad railway station. Vesci family, Kimberworth manor, to the present improvement of Rotherham and Kimbenvorth, under lord and impropriator, the Earl of EffinghiLIIl, a the powers of the" Public Health Act, 1848" (11 & 12 ·collateral descendant of the Howards, Dukes of Nor- Vict.c. 63), the" Town Clauses Act," and the "Towns folk. A Court Leet is held annually. During the Improvement Clauses Act." In 1871 the townships Civil ·war Rotherham embraced the cause of the Parlia- of Rotherham and Kimberworth were constituted a. rnent, but in 1643 it was reduced to subjection by the municipal borough by Royal Charter, and placed under famous Royalist Commander, Sir vYilliam Cavendish, the government of a mayor, six aldermen and K.B., afterwards created Duke of ~ ewcastle. After eighteen councillors, and the powers of the former :the siege of Sheffield, in 1644, RDtherham fell into the Local Board were then transferred to the Corporation. hancls of the Parliamentarians. · The Borough was considerably extended in 1879 by Act of Parliament, and unLl the year 1893 consisted MAXUFACTL"H.Es.-The neighbourhood of the town of the townships of Rotherham and Kimberworth (the .n.fiords an abundance of coal and ironstone, so that in latter containing the district known as Masbro'), and ancient times Rotherham was famous for its manu­ portions of the townships of Brinsworth, \"\1'hist