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Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England, built upon the River Don near the confluence of the Don and the Rother. Rotherham lies in the Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster. The town is six miles from Sheffield City Centre. It is the main town in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham. Sheffield and Rotherham combined have a population of 821,466. 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. The region had been exploited for iron since Roman times, but it was coal that first brought the industrial revolution to Rotherham. The seams were the driving force behind the improvements to navigation along the Don - the various cuttings that eventually formed the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. The athlete Peter Elliott and politician William Hague both come from Rotherham, as does former England goalkeeper David Seaman.