Great Ayton
Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The River Leven flows through the village, which lies just north of the North York Moors. According to the 2021 Census, the parish has a population of 4,346.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,500 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Great Ayton, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Ayton Quaker Meeting House and Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum.
Great Ayton Quaker Meeting House
Church
Great Ayton Quaker Meeting House is a historic religious building in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first Quaker meeting in Great Ayton was established in 1698, and in 1700 the worshippers purchased a house to use for meetings.
Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum
Museum
The Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum is a museum in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as a school, on the initiative of Michael Postgate.
St Margaret Clitherow’s Church
Church
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St Margaret Clitherow's Church is a Catholic church in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the 1960s, Catholics in Great Ayton worshipped at St Joseph's Church, Stokesley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Easby and Newton under Roseberry.
Easby
Village
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Easby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately 2 miles south-east of Great Ayton. The larger village of Low Easby lies 0.3 miles down the road, but neither have any amenities, only a postbox. Easby is situated 1½ miles southeast of Great Ayton.
Newton under Roseberry
Village
Newton under Roseberry is a village in the civil parish of Guisborough, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Newton under Roseberry is situated 1½ miles north of Great Ayton.
Tanton
Hamlet
Tanton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stokesley, North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the B1365 which connects Stokesley in the south, with Marton in the north. The hamlet is 1.25 miles north of Stokesley. Tanton is situated 2½ miles west of Great Ayton.
Great Ayton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Ayton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.48806° or 54° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
-1.13293° or 1° 7′ 59″ westPopulation
4,500Elevation
305 feet (93 metres)Open location code
9C6WFVQ8+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 27648218OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648172Wikidata ID
Q1616712
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Great Ayton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Ayton”
- Dutch: “Great Ayton”
- Esperanto: “Great Ayton”
- French: “Great Ayton”
- Hindi: “ग्रेट आइटन”
- Hungarian: “Great Ayton”
- Irish: “Great Ayton”
- Italian: “Great Ayton”
- Ladin: “Great Ayton”
- Persian: “گریت ایتون”
- Polish: “Great Ayton”
- Russian: “Грейт-Эйтон”
- Spanish: “Great Ayton”
- Swedish: “Great Ayton”
- Turkish: “Great Ayton”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Ayton”. Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.