About Us

The Community Assembly of Rawmarsh is located in a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire in the British Isles. Historically, Rawmarsh sits within the West Riding of Yorkshire, a few miles north-northeast of Rotherham town centre and south-southwest of Swinton. The village also forms part of the Sheffield Urban Area.

Coal was mined in the Haugh area from the mid-15th century and in the Parkgate area since around 1700, mostly from small pits under the ownership of Earl Fitzwilliam. Deeper mining came in the mid-19th century when the town became ringed with collieries, Warren House and Warren Vale to the north, Stubbin, later followed by New Stubbin together with its railway, the Stubbin Incline, linking it to the Greasbrough Canal taking up the western side and near the River Don in Parkgate. Thes ran adjacent to two mainline railways serving the town Aldwarke Main and Roundwood. The last three collieries were the last of these to close, with the very last being New Stubbin, closing in 1978.

Primarily a residential area, Rawmarsh is known for its church, Rawmarsh St Mary's Parish Church, which dominates the view at the top of Rawmarsh Hill. There has been a church in the town since Norman times (c. 1127).

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