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CAR LEASING ROTHERHAM
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Rotherham Leasing
Did You Know?In the 1st century AD the Romans built a fort by the river Rother. In time civilians moved nearby and a little town grew up. (The soldiers provided a market for the townspeople's goods). However, in 407 AD, the Roman army left Britain and the settlements were abandoned. Modern Rotherham was founded by a people called the Angles. They started a settlement called Rother Ham, which means the village by the Rother. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 Rotherham was a small village. It probably had a population of less than 100. By the 13th century Rotherham had grown into a little town. It had weekly markets. It also had annual fairs. However, Medieval Rotherham would seem tiny to us. It only had a population of a few hundred. Rotherham is today the largest town in a contiguous area with Sheffield, informally known as the Sheffield Urban Area. The townsmen of Rotherham formed the "Greaves of Our Lady's Light", an organisation which worked with the town's three guilds. It was suppressed in 1547 but revived in 1584 as the feoffees of the common lands of Rotherham, and remains in existence. Glass works was set up in Rotherham in 1751, and became Beatson Clark & Co, one of the town's largest manufacturers, exporting glass medicine bottles worldwide. Built in the 18th century, Clifton House houses Clifton Park Museum. The remains of the 16th-century College of Jesus are in the town centre
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