Rotherham [1] [2] 
i / ˈ r ɒ ð (ə) r ə m / [3] ) - a city in the county of South Yorkshire ( England ), the administrative center of the Rotherham district.
| City | |
| Rotherham | |
|---|---|
| Rootherham | |
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| A country |  Great Britain |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Ceremonial county | South yorkshire |
| History and Geography | |
| Timezone | UTC0 , summer UTC + 1 |
| Population | |
| Population | 109 691 people ( 2011 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | 01709 0114 01909 |
| Postal codes | S60 – S63, S65 – S66 |
| rotherham.gov.uk | |
The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Rother and Don . 257 thousand people live in the city and its suburbs (according to the 2011 census ). Rotherham is located 10 kilometers from the center of Sheffield and is part of the Sheffield agglomeration .
The city has developed the production of steel and agricultural machinery.
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History
Despite the presence of several settlements on the territory of the modern city, it was founded only at the beginning of the Middle Ages . Its name is derived from the Old English hām (home, possession) and the name of the river Rother . The city was founded as one of the key Saxon market cities on the Roman road near fords on the Don River [4] .
Towards the end of the Saxon period, Rotherham was the center of a large parish located on both sides of the river.
In the 1480s, the Archbishop of York , Thomas Rotherham , who came from the city, insisted on the construction of the College of Jesus , where theology, singing, grammar, and writing were studied [5] . The college was destroyed in the middle of the 16th century, but gave the name to the street.
Since Roman times, the city has been mining and processing iron. Local iron and steel were highly regarded for their strength. For example, ship guns were made here, including for the HMS Victory . The iron industry of the city remained after the industrial revolution . At the beginning of the 19th century, numerous iron processing enterprises opened here: Effingham Ironworks ( Yates, Haywood & Co ), Parkgate Ironworks and others.
Since 1751, the glass industry developed. Beatson Clark & Co has exported medical glass containers to various countries.
The traditional industry of the city is the manufacture of flour from grain.
In 2007, the city was heavily flooded ( Flooding in Britain in the summer of 2007 ).
In the same year, he launched the Rotherham Renaissance urban regeneration project.
In August 2014, the city found itself at the center of a scandal involving the sexual exploitation of children. Between 1997 and 2013, it was estimated that 1.4 thousand children (mostly white teenage girls who were victims of gangs of Pakistani origin) were affected [6] [7] [8] .
Population
| Data on boro Rotherham 1801–1891 | ||||||||||
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| Year | 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 |
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| East: Vision of Britain - Rotherham District: Total Population [9] . | ||||||||||
| Data on Borot Rotherham 1901–2001 | |||||||||||
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| Year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 |
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| Source: Vision of Britain - Rotherham District: Total Population [9] . | |||||||||||
See also
- Rotherham United - Football Club
Notes
- ↑ Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: Geographic Names / Ed. A.F. Treshnikov . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1989. - S. 402. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .
- ↑ A. G. Shiger. Administrative and territorial division of foreign countries: a directory . - Gos. publishing house geogr. Liters, 1952. p. 63: “No. 92 City of Rotherham + Rotherham County of Yorkshire (western) 82.3 thousand in 1951 census”
- ↑ Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, p. 697, ISBN 9781405881180
- ↑ RotherhamUnOfficial Archived on August 19, 2007.
- ↑ David Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire
- ↑ Failures in Rotherham led to sexual abuse of 1,400 children - Guardian
- ↑ Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds - BBC
- ↑ Tolerance with particular cynicism. How the British covered a gang of Pakistani pedophiles, afraid to appear racist , Lenta.ru (September 11, 2014). Date of treatment September 11, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Rotherham District: Total Population . Vision of Britain . Retrieved on February 2, 2009.
Links
- rotherham.gov.uk (English) - Rotherham's official site