Hill Top - Kimberworth Park - Richmond Park
Hill Top
The top of the hill from Richmond Park. At one time it was known as Gilberthorpe Hill. There is still the old farm, housing, the big rubbish tip stretching down to Tinsley Viaduct, woods and sports grounds.
Kimberworth Park
Kimberworth Park is largely an area of 1950s housing estates to the north of Kimberworth. If you are into the history of Rotherham don't get it confused with Kimberworth Deer Park which existed the west of Kimberworth throughout the Middle Ages. The deer park was created some time in the Middle Ages and was extended by the Lady of Kimberworth, Idonea de Vipont who died in 1334. The new housing is roughly upon the same site but I think it has been a fair few years since there have been any deer in the vicinity.
A separate parish was created and the church of St John was opened in 1957 to provide for the inhabitants of the new estates.
More pages about Kimberworth Park:-
For more about Barkers Park in visit onsite at Recreation - Rotherham's Parks - Urban Parks - Barkers Park.
Richmond Park
In 1850, according to the Ordnance Survey map, there was precisely nothing at Richmond Park. By 1888 there was a school and the beginning of the housing estates that exist today.