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6 unusual facts about Great Ayton


Colin Atkinson

Before joining the staff at Millfield in 1960, he had taught at both Great Ayton and at Darlington.

Great Ayton

Each stone was numbered so that the cottage could be reconstructed exactly in its new home in the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne.

The obelisk is constructed from granite taken from Point Hicks, the first land sighted by Cook in Australia.

Harold Kitching

Kitching was born at Great Ayton, Yorkshire, the son of Alfred Edward Kitching and his wife Annie Backhouse Richardson.

Joseph Whitwell

Whitwell died in November 1932, in Langbaurgh Hall, Great Ayton, Yorkshire.

Thomas Brentnall

The family lived at Eston, Yorkshire, and Brentnall was educated at private schools at Great Ayton and Darlington.



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