Eston is a town within the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Middlesbrough Agglomeration in Teesside, but is outside the borough boundary. With other suburbs it forms a Greater Eston area. The town of Eston lies at the foot of Eston Hills, a ridge 150-200 m above sea level, and a part of the Cleveland Hills. The land around Eston has been occupied since 2400BC, but it was the discovery of ironstone in Eston Hills by Industrialists from Middlesbrough (most notably Henry Bolkow & John Vaughn) in 1841 that saw Eston development start in 1850, from two cottages to a thriving mining town. Eston is called Astune in some documents and is said to come from the Saxon "Ash" which ties in with the church of St Helen, there was a Saxon church on this site and the Saxons associated the Ash tree with St Helen. In the 13th century the land around Eston was given to the Meynills ( who had the castle at Whorlton ), they gave land to Fountains Abbey and Guisborough Priory which is probably how the Grange Farm became so named. The Meynill land passed to the D'Arcies, then the Conyers through marriage then through will to the Staypltons and Lady Hewley. The Stayplton name lives on in Eston only through the Stayplton Arms now.Lady Hewley's land was given by her to a trust which is still in operation. The discovery of ironstone in the Eston Hills and several drift mines opening, triggered the Iron and Steel industry that shaped so much of Teesside. More on Eston