Coordinates: 53°28′52″N 1°10′55″W / 53.481°N 1.182°W / 53.481; -1.182
Edlington is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, lying to the south west of Doncaster and Warmsworth. It has a population of 8,276. The original parish town of Edlington is now known as Old Edlington; adjacent, and to the north, is New Edlington. It is often referred to by locals as 'Edlo'. Since 1974 Edlington has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire. It had, since 1894, formed part of Doncaster Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
During the final stages of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Periods, Edlington was a place of settlement for the Palaeolithic groups of early nomadic humans. The groups had followed the improving climate northwards as the Ice Sheets covering Europe retreated. In 2003 the South Yorkshire Archaeological Survey found compelling evidence that these early groups of Humans had been using caves and natural outcrops in Edlington wood as shelters and bases for hunting. Additionally quantities of flint tools from the period were unearthed near to a Rock Shelter in the wood. During the period in which the tools can be dated the landscape of the area was a vast treeless tundra, with forestation occurring only as late into the period as 7500 BC.
Coordinates: 53°13′34″N 0°09′14″W / 53.226°N 0.154°W / 53.226; -0.154
Edlington is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west from the town of Horncastle, and in the civil parish of Edlington with Wispington. In the 2001 Census the parish population was recorded as 147.
Edlington Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Helen. Originating in the 12th century, it was rebuilt in 1859 by James Fowler, but retained its Norman tower arch and Early English font.
A further listed building is the late 16th-century Hall Farm House.
Next to the Church—in the grounds of Edlington Manor—archaeologists found evidence of a small Roman camp where they found pots of oxen bones, most likely used for ceremonial purposes.