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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ESTON , an See also:

urban See also:district in the ,See also:Cleveland See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:North See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 4 M. S.E. of See also:Middlesbrough, on a See also:branch of the North Eastern railway. Pop. (1901) 11,199, This is one of the See also:principal centres from which the See also:great ironstone deposits of the Cleveland Hills are worked, and there are extensive blast-furnaces, See also:iron-foundries and See also:steam sawing-See also:mills in the district. Immediately W. of Eston lies the urban district of Ormesby (pop. 9482), and the whole district is densely populated (see MIDDLESBROUGH). Marton, See also:west of Ormesby, was the birthplace of See also:Captain See also:Cook (1728). Numerous See also:early earthworks fringe the hills to the See also:south.

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