Templeborough
Templeborough is situated west of Rotherham Town Centre in the floodplain of the River Don. This was a predominately agricultural area until the 19th Century filled up the river valley with industry. There is now nothing left of the Roman fort possibly called Morbium and the associated town and graveyards that used to be in the area. That is unless you consider the name Deadman's Hole Lane, a bit of which is left near Blackburn Meadows Nature Reserve. My mother, who was a Tinsley lass from just down the road, reckoned that when the Don was in spate it used to back up though Dead Man's Hole (part of one of the Roman cemeteries) and that skeletons would come floating out on the flood, to the great delight of the local ghouls, sorry, children.
I assume that later people who lived in Rotherham interpreted the remains of the fort as a temple hence the name Templeborough rather than Forttown or Castleborough. Other versions of the name recorded are Templebarrow, and the place was also called Burgh (or Brough) Hill and Castle Garth.
In the 12th Century Templeborough was owned by the de Saville family. It was gifted to the Abbot of Roche Abbey in whose hands it remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538. It was a crown possession to 1559 during which time the old fort was used as a quarry by the locals. In 1559 Queen Elizabeth granted Templeborough and Ickles to Lionel Reresby. The Reresbys sold the estate to Sir John Savile in 1705. Elizabeth Savile inherited Templeborough along with the Thrybergh estates of the Reresbys. Both estates were owned by the same families, latterly the Fullertons, to 1803. Quite what happened after that I am not sure but during the early months of the First World War steel works were built on the site. The steel company permitted excavation the site of the fort and cemeteries before they disappeared under the works.
There was a small village here with houses, a chapel, a public house and a school opened in 1903. The community was destroyed in the 1950s to allow for the further expansion of the steelworks. The pub called the Temple is still there but I don't think its a pub any more. The old Templeborough Rolling Mills has been reborn as Magna Science Adventure Centre whilst Brinsworth Strip Mill still exists. In the 21st Century many of the old and derelict works have now been redeveloped or demolished and re-built.