England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Rotherham
Rotherham is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 110,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Rotherham, with about 74 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- LBA52 km · Leeds Bradford Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Rotherham
Rotherham is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies at the confluence of the River Rother, from which the town takes its name, and the River Don.
"Rother" is Old English for "chief river", roduβr, but those Old English can't have travelled very far, since the River Rother is merely a tributary of the Don, which in turn joins the Trent / Ouse tidal system and then the broad Humber. It wasn't navigable but had water enough to power mills and supply industry, which drove Rotherham's 18th-century growth from a small market town into a busy, grubby city. Iron and steel was the main industry, using local iron ore fired by coal from the rich Barnsley seam.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Rotherham
See
- Rotherham Minster
- Chapel of Our Lady of Rotherham Bridge
- Clifton Park Museum
- South Yorkshire Transport Museum
- Boston Castle
- Centenary Riverside Park
- Magna Science Adventure Centre
- Roche Abbey
- Wentworth Woodhouse
- Conisbrough Castle
Do
- Rotherham United
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Rotherham
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Rotherham Central hotel | 74 | 4.5/5 222 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Rotherham
3 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Aston Hall | 8.6 km | |
| Hellaby Hall | 1690 | 7.8 km |
| Phoenix Hotel | 0.4 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Rotherham
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Rotherham are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 73 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Rotherham: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 52 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 62 km) and East Midlands Airport (EMA, 67 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Rotherham lies north of the M1 and west of the M18, with several access junctions. See South Yorkshire for flight options. Trains run every 30 min from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester and Derby, and from London Kings Cross to Doncaster. Change at either Sheffield or Doncaster for frequent local trains onward to Rotherham Central, for a total journey time from London of 2 hr 30 min. Coming from the north, you usually change at Leeds or Doncaster. However there's also a train three times a day from York via Pontefract to Rotherham and Sheffield.
Getting around
Most sights can be reached on foot. For Magna Centre take any bus towards Sheffield, except the X78 which uses a different route. For Roche Abbey take the X1 to Maltby then walk south for a mile on A634. This is a busy road but there's a sidewalk. Taxis wait at the railway and bus stations.
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LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
MAN · Manchester Airport
EMA · East Midlands Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Rotherham
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Rotherham: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Rotherham?
By published guest score: Travelodge Rotherham Central (4.5 / 5 · 222 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Rotherham?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Rotherham are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 73 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Rotherham?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 52 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 62 km) and East Midlands Airport (EMA, 67 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Rotherham?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Rotherham
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.