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EDLINGTON: Doncaster Parish #16 of 43

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FORGOTTEN 120 YEAR OLD TUNNEL FROM EDLINGTON TO CONISBROUGH

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Night Flying Over Edlington

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THE DAY THEY SHUT THE PIT 1984

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The Rookery, Edlington.

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.
  • City facts 

  • Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic period 

  • Saxon meaning 

  • Great Domesday Book 

  • St Peter's Parish Church 

  • St. John the Baptist Church 

  • The Edlington (Yorkshire) Land and Development Company Limited 

  • Edlington Halt 

  • Sites of Special Scientific Interest 

  • Scheduled ancient monuments 

  • Viscount Molesworth 1st and the White Greyhound 

  • Joe Harvey 

  • Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham 

  • Katharine Richardson 

  • Yorkshire Main Colliery 

  • Attempted murders in 2009