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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "ROTHER VALLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  DERBYSHIRE, or Derby	Derbyshire	Rother. Warm springs are at Matlock, Buxton, and Bakewell; sulphur springs, at Keddleston, Ilkeston, and Heage; and a chalybeate spring, at Quarndon. Rocks of new red sandstone occupy nearly all the south, to a line north of Derby and Ashborne; and rocks of the carboniferous series, ranging from the lower limestone and shale, through the upper limestone and the mill-stone-grit, to the coal-measures, occupy all the centre and the north. Building-stones and roofing-slates are quarried; marbles, spars, white chert, and fine clays are worked; mineral caoutchouc, quartz diamonds, toadstone, manganese, calamine, galena, barytes, and many	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	valley from Tunbridge to Maidstone, and more generally the greater part of the county. Fineness of scenery, mildness of climate, and richness as well as diversity of production, combine to render Kent eminently attractive. Hence does Drayton, in the " Polyolbion, '' say, - O famous Kent ! What county hath this isle that can compare with thee? That hath within thyself as much as thou can'st wish: Thy rabbits, venison, fruits, thy sorts of fowl and fish: As what with strength comports, thy hay, thy corn, thy wood, - Nor anything doth want that anywhere is good. The chief rivers, besides the Thames	Imperial
  ROTHERHAM	Yorkshire	Rother; belonged to successively Acune the Saxon, Nigel de lovetot, the Vescis, Ruffordabbey, and the Talbots; had a college of ecclesiastics, founded in 1483, by Thomas de Rotherham, who was a native, and became Archbishop of York; suffered muchdecline in prosperity, by the suppression of that collegeafter the Reformation; was garrisoned by the parliamentarians, and taken by the royalists, in the civil wars of Charles I.; is now a seat of petty-sessions, quarter-sessions, and county-courts, and a polling-place; is governedby town commissioners and 12 feoffees; occupies a diversified site, partly valley	Imperial
  Sussex	Sussex	valley of the Weald, rising into the Forest Ridge on the NE., and sinking 011 the SE., towards the sea, into wide marshes. The rivers are not important; they are the Arun, Adur, Ouse, and Rother	Bartholomew

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