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| Name | Edlington |
| Type | Town, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 53.46°N 1.2°W |
| Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | South Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
| See also | Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which it was located | | Doncaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district of which it was a part until 1974 | | Doncaster (metropolitan borough), South Yorkshire, England | metropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
NOTE: There is another Edlington in Lincolnshire.
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
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.
Historically, Edlington was an ecclesiastical parish in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Edlington. A great many interesting topics are covered.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Edlington. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Edlington provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Edlington.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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