History

Yorkshire, Glass houses

'..These hills lie but a little way inland, and not far from each other: they are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation, which very much resembles a glass house, and for this reason I called them the Glass Houses: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest; there are several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but these are not nearby so remarkable...'

Captain James Cook wrote this in his journal on the 17 may 1770 when he discovered and named the Glasshouse Mountains.