Phoenix Hotel

This traditional English guest house offers comfortable accommodation, a pub and restaurant on ground level. The Phoenix has just completed an extensive refurbishment programme. All bedrooms are en-suite. The hotel is located in the centre of Rotherham, a town undergoing major transformation. A few minutes' drive from the hotel is the fantastic Yorkshire countryside, which offers superb walks.

About Rotherham

Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England, built upon the River Don near the confluence of the Don and the Rother. It lies in the Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster. Its geographic coordinates are 53°26′N 1°21′W. The town is six miles from Sheffield city centre. It is the main town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, which has the safest Labour council in the country. The population of the borough of Rotherham is 248,175, and that of the Rotherham urban sub-area 117,262.
While there were Iron Age and Roman settlements in the area now covered by the town, Rotherham itself was not founded until the Early Middle Ages. It soon established itself as a key Saxon market town, lying, as it does, on a Roman road near a forded part of the Don.

In the 1480s the Rotherham-born Archbishop of York, Thomas Rotherham, instigated the building of a college (The College of Jesus) to rival the colleges of Cambridge and Oxford. This and the stylish new parish church of All Saints made Rotherham an enviable and modern town at the turn of the 16th century. But the college was dissolved under the reign of Edward VI, its assets stripped for the crown. By the end of the 16th century, Rotherham had fallen from a fashionable college town to a notorious haven of gambling and vice. Nevertheless, the history of Thomas Rotherham and education in the town continues to be remembered in the name of Thomas Rotherham College.