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| Great Ayton has many connections with Captain Cook.
His father worked for Thomas Skottowe, the lord of the manor, and
lived at Aireyholme Farm on the side of Roseberry Topping, a hill
which dominates the Cleveland countryside, Thomas Skottowe paid James
Cook's fees at the Postgate School. In All Saints Church (a fine twelfth
century building) one can see Thomas Skottowe's memorial tablet and,
in the churchyard, the gravestone of Grace Cook, the explorer's mother.
A cottage, built in the village by Cook's father, was transferred
to Melbourne in Australia in 1933; an obelisk now marks the site.
A statue representing Cook as a boy, by the sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby,
commissioned by Hambleton District Council and Great Ayton Parish
Council, was unveiled on the High Green in 1997. |
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