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Great Ayton to Marske 
Great Ayton to Marske The small town of Great Ayton has spacious greens alongside the river Leven and is the place where James Cook attended school, paid for by his father's employer Thomas Scottowe. Here he learned the basics of mathematics which would enable him to learn the navigation skills he became famous for later in life. The school is now the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, celebrating his life in the locality. Elsewhere in the village is the old All Saints Parish Church,where the Cook family regularly worshipped. In the graveyard are the graves of his mother and five of his brothers and sisters. Although James left the village at 16, the family remained at Aireyholme Farm until 1755, when they moved into a cottage in Bridge St. This building was dismantled and shipped to Australia in 1934, where it was rebuilt in Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne. A granite memorial now marks the site in the town. Cook's life is again celebrated by a huge obelisk erected in 1827on Easby Moor high above the town. This monumentis on a four mile "Cook's Boyhood" circular walkwhich takes in the strangely shaped Roseberry Toppingand Aireyholme Farm. The Tour now passes through Guisborough, the site of an Augustinian Priory founded in 1119 and a colourful twice weekly market. On towards Marske, Kirkleatham village has a number of 17th & 18th century buildings including almshouses from 1676 and the splendid Old Hall Museum and owl sanctuary. Nearby Redcar has connections with the Cook family - his sister married a fisherman from here - and also houses the "Zetland", the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world built in 1800. |
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