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Marton to Great Ayton 
Marton to Great Ayton The CookCountry Tour starts at the award winning Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in Marton where the latest computer technology is used to tell Cook's story, his naval career, voyages of discovery and his world-wide influence. The museum was opened in 1978 and now houses a unique insight into the world of James Cook. Set in a hundred acres of parkland with lakes and a children's zoo, the newly transformed museum marks the site of Cook's birth just a few yards away. Here a granite vase now stands on the site of the cottage where he was born in 1728. The cottage was demolished in 1786 to make way for a grand mansion, since destroyed by fire. A day labourer, Cook's father worked on local farms and married Grace in the nearby village of Stainton in1725. James was their second child and was baptised on 3rd November 1728 in the small church of St. Cuthbert closeby. Since then the church has been rebuilt several times.The church was restored in the 1840's when Middlesbrough was just about to be developed as an important iron-making centre of Victorian England. The register in which James' birth was entered is displayed in the church - the entry reads "James the son of James Cook day labourer baptized" written in a simple hand.  On Marton Village Green is a stone memorial from Point Hicks in Australia, the first Australian land sighted by Cook in 1770. When James was 8 years old his father found a post as bailiff at a farm just six miles away near the village of Great Ayton. |
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