You can visit James Cook’s parents’ cottage

Admiral Hugh Palliser, a contemporaneous of Cook and a previous owner of the estate, created one of the first memorials to Cook in the UK at The Vache in 1780. A massive obelisk and a smaller monument honoring Cook were erected in 1827 atop Easby Moor, which has a commanding view of the village where he grew up, Great Ayton. In the church of St. Andrew the Great, St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge, where his sons Hugh and James were buried, there is also a memorial to Cook. Cook's widow Elizabeth was also interred there and donated funds for the memorial's maintenance in her will. The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, which is located inside Stewart Park, was opened in Marton to commemorate Cook's birth's 250th anniversary (1978). The approximate location of his birth is marked with a stone vase that is located just south of the museum.

In Melbourne, Australia's Fitzroy Gardens, a piece of the Cook family's history is preserved. Although it is unknown if James Cook resided in this cottage, which his parents formerly owned, he is most likely to have visited. The 18th-century house was dismantled and exported throughout the world in the 1930s. The old mansion, which is the oldest structure in Australia, is now furnished with antiques. Cuttings from the structure, which once stood in England, were used to grow the ivory that is now creeping down the external walls.