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

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.
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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.
- 01All 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 - 02Clifton 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 - 03Rotherham 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 - 04Greasbrough 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 - 05Hoober 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 - 06Rotherham 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 - 07The 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 - 08Rotherham 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
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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 → Rawmarsh40 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–6
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rawmarsh59 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rawmarsh58 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Rawmarsh
Rawmarsh is 12 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rotherhamtown in South Yorkshire, England3.8 km
- Thryberghvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
- Daltonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Swintontown in South Yorkshire, England3.3 km
- Greasbroughvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Kilnhurstvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km