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East Herringthorpe & Herringthorpe
The Herringthorpe and East Herringthorpe areas are situated to the south east
and east of Rotherham Town Centre.
The Villages
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 Fourteenth 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 this 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.
Other Pages to Visit
More information about the area onsite at:-
Recreation in Rotherham >> Rotherham Parks >> Urban Parks >> Valley Park, Herringthorpe
and Recreation in Rotherham >> Rotherham Parks >> Heritage Woodlands >> Gibbing Greave &
Herringthorpe Wood.