Stainton is a village in Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough

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, in the borough of Middlesbrough

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 and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire

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, England

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. It is in the local ward

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 and civil parish

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 of Stainton and Thornton

Stainton and Thornton

Stainton and Thornton is a civil parish in Middlesbrough, England. It consists of the two villages Stainton and Thornton....

, and had a population of approximately 2,300 as of 2005.

Stainton is one of the few areas within the boundaries of modern-day Middlesbrough to have been named in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 of 1086. Indeed, it has been a settlement since pre-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

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 times, while its name reveals it to have been an area of Scandinavia

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n residence.

Stainton Church dates back to the 12th Century. The marriage there on 10 October 1725, of James Cook and Grace Pace, parents of the eventual explorer and navigator, Captain James Cook, is noted in the church register. The younger James Cook was born in the nearby Cleveland

Cleveland, England

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 village of East Marton

Marton, Middlesbrough

Marton — officially Marton-in-Cleveland — was a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, which is now within the town boundaries of Middlesbrough, in the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Originally, the parish of Marton extended down to the River...

 some three years later.
The Stainton Inn pub

Public house

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, on Meldyke Lane, was first licensed in 1897, celebrating its centenary in 1997.

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