Rotherham, a flourishing town in Yorkshire, situated on the Don, 5 m. NE. of Sheffield; its cruciform church is a splendid specimen of Perpendicular architecture; manufactures iron-ware, chemicals, pottery, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 42,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rothe, Richard * Rothesay