ESTON  , an

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