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Rawmarsh

Rawmarsh is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Rawmarsh is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is 2 miles (3 km) north-northeast from Rotherham town centre and 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest of Swinton. The village also forms part of the Sheffield Urban Area. The Rawmarsh ward of Rotherham MBC had a population of 13,389 at the 2011 Census. Rawmarsh also contains other output areas from neighbouring wards giving it a population of 18,498 in 2011 and 18,535 in 2014.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rawmarsh

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    All Saints Church, Rotherham

    The Minster Church of All Saints or Rotherham Minster is the Anglican minster church of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The Minster is a prominent example of Perpendicular Gothic architecture and various architectural historians have rated it highly.

    3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Clifton Park Museum

    Clifton Park and Museum is a city park and municipal museum located in Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Clifton Park Museum is located in Clifton House and is one of several publicly owned museums and visitor attractions administered by the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham.

    3.8 km · municipal museum situated in Clifton House on the western edge of Clifton Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rotherham Bridge

    Rotherham Bridge is a late 15th-century stone arch bridge spanning the River Don in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Notable for incorporates the Chapel of Our Lady of the Bridge, it is one of only four surviving medieval bridges in England that feature an intact bridge chapel.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed bridge in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Greasbrough War Memorial And Railed Enclosure

    Greasbrough War Memorial is a Grade II listed war memorial located in the centre of Greasbrough, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was erected to commemorate local residents who died in military service during the First World War.

    2.1 km · war memorial in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hoober Stand

    Hoober Stand is a 30-metre-high tower and Grade II* listed building on a ridge in Wentworth, South Yorkshire in northern England. It was designed by Henry Flitcroft for the Whig aristocrat Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Earl of Malton to commemorate the quashing of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.

    3.5 km · tower in Wentworth, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Rotherham Town Hall

    Rotherham Town Hall is a municipal building in The Crofts, off Moorgate Street in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

    3.9 km · municipal building in The Crofts, Rotherham, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Rockingham Mausoleum

    The Rockingham Mausoleum, Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England is a cenotaph commemorating Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was Prime Minister at the time of his death in 1782. The name by which the memorial is now known is in fact a misnomer, since Charles Watson-Wentworth is buried in York Minster.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed building in Wentworth, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rotherham College

    Rotherham College is a further education college in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was established as Rotherham School of Science and Art in the 19th century.

    3.5 km · college in Rotherham, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Rawmarsh

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 49 km · Manchester (MAN), 63 km · East Midlands (EMA), 70 km
Stations
Rotherham Central railway station, 3.7 km · Swinton railway station, 3.6 km · Rotherham Westgate railway station, 3.9 km · Swinton Town railway station, 3.7 km · Thrybergh Tins railway station, 3.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rawmarsh
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rawmarsh
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rawmarsh
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rawmarsh

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rawmarsh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    309 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    339 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    373 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    401 km

If you know how people move in Rawmarsh – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rawmarsh

Rawmarsh is 12 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Swintontown in South Yorkshire, England3.3 km
  • Greasbroughvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km
  • Kilnhurstvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km