East Herringthorpe & Herringthorpe
The Herringthorpe and East Herringthorpe areas are situated to the south east and east of Rotherham Town Centre. There has been a manor at Herringthorpe since Saxon times and there would have been no more than a manor house or grange, barns and maybe a few huts.
East Herringthorpe
The eastern part of Herringthorpe: East Herringthorpe also consists of housing estates, with the added bonus of the town crematorium.
Herringthorpe
Thorpe is Old Norse for village, but I don't think that herrings were caught here so perhaps it was a personal name. Herring is Old English and I've come across it as a local surname in the 14th Century but why Herring came to be a surname so far inland has me beat. I've found a source that describes it a personal name after Hring, son of Harold Hairfair which would well predate 1066. Herringthorpe itself covers quite a wide area from Herringthorpe Playing fields to Valley Park. I believe that up to the 20th Century the area was largely rural consisting of a manor house, Herringthorpe Hall, farmsteads and cottages (now gone). Herringthorpe Valley Road cut a swathe through here and the various housing estates came to fill up the spaces later.