St Edwins Chapel is located in Sherwood Forest near Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.

King Edwin of Northumbria who was killed at the Battle of Hatfield while fighting King Penda of Mercia during a battle a few miles from Edwinstowe in 633 AD. His body was secretly buried in a clearing in Sherwood Forest so that his enemies did not steal his body, later a small wooden church was built on his grave. The Royal body was later re-interred at Whitby Abbey and his head was taken to St. Peter's church at York, which he had begun. A memorial cross now stands in its place with a pile of stones and a tribute from Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland.

Edwin was slain on 12 October, 633, in repelling an attack made on him by Penda, the pagan King of Mercia, who, together with the Welsh prince Cadwallon, a Christian only in name, had invaded his dominion. Perishing thus in conflict with the enemies of the Faith, he was regarded as a martyr. By this time people were calling him Saint Edwin and the near by village was named Edwinstowe - safe place of Edwin.

Edwin was the most powerful king among the Anglo-Saxons, ruling Bernicia, Deira and much of eastern Mercia, the Isle of Man and Anglesey. He married Ethelburga, daughter of St. Ethelbert, King of Kent after promising to allow her to practice her Christian religion. St. Paulinus was sent as chaplain to the Queen and bishop for his converts. When Queen Ethelburga gave birth to a daughter, she was baptized with twelve others on Whitsunday, and called Eanfleda; they were the first fruits of the Northumbrians. Edwin was a man of unusual wisdom and deliberated in his heart to which religion he should follow. King Edwin was baptized at York at Easter in the year 627, on the site of the present York Minster, in the wooden church of St. Peter which he had caused to be built. Under him the law was so respected, that it became, as the Venerable Bede attests "A woman might travel through the island with a babe at her breast without fear of insult". He reigned seventeen years