Rotherham and Rawmarsh

For hundreds of years, Rawmarsh has been a parish in the town of Rotherham. The parish was given by William the Conqueror to Walter D'Eincourt. Camden wrote that it was famous for its earthenware and the white wheat, its fields produce. It was described in 1822, as, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, with a value of, £8. 7s. 3½d.

Areas which were then considered to be a part of the parish, included:

Rose Hill, the seat of Robert Leighton in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3 miles from Rotherham

Round Wood, a farm-house in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 2½ miles N. of Rotherham

Ryecroft, a farm-house in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3 miles N. of Rotherham

Stubbing, a farm-house in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3½ miles N. of Rotherham

Birch Wood, which is now part of the Warren Vale Local Nature Reserve lies approximately 5 kilometres north of the centre of Rotherham, on the northern edge of Rawmarsh. Directly north of Birch Wood lies the Roman Ridge, built between 450 and 600 AD to defend the Celtic kingdom of Elmet from the advancing Anglo-Saxons. The earliest record of the woodland itself dates from 1776

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