Templeborough

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Templeborough
Templeborough shown within South Yorkshire
Population	17,443
OS grid reference	SK410916
Metropolitan borough	Rotherham
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sheffield
Postcode district	S60
Dialling code	01709
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Rotherham
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°25′07″N 1°23′17″W / 53.4187, -1.388

Templeborough (grid reference SK410916) is a district in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

The area takes its name from the remains of the Roman fort found here. This was first built in wood c55, and was later rebuilt in stone. It is thought to have been occupied until the Roman withdrawal from England c410. The remains were first believed to be that of a Roman Temple. The Roman road called Icknield Street (sometimes Ryknild or Riknild Street) crossed the River Don at a ford close to the fort. There was also a road that ran from the fort to Brough-on-Noe in Derbyshire. The double bank that surrounded the fort was still visible in 1831, and archaeological excavations that were carried out in 1877 found evidence that the fort had been burned to the ground and rebuilt twice. Coins discovered during this excavation ranged in date from the time of the emperors Augustus to Constantine I. The site was excavated again in 1917, and finds from both excavations are now housed in Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham. The original stone columns from the Roman granary at Templeborough Fort were re-erected in Clifton Park in 1922.

The remains of the fort were covered by a steelworks in 1917 to make artillery shells for use in World War I.

At their height in the mid-20th century the Templeborough steelworks employed 10,000 people. The steelworks closed in 1993 and have since been converted into a museum — the £46 million Magna Centre.