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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.