History of Goole, in East Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description". Visionofbritain.org.uk . Retrieved 25 November 2020. Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google. a b c d e f Porteous, J.D. (1969). The Company Town of Goole: An Essay in Urban Genesis. Hull University Press. pp.5–6.

Body, Geoffrey (1986). Railways of the Eastern Region. Vol. 1, Southern operating area. Wellingborough: Stephens. p.74. ISBN 0850597129. Goole is twinned with Złotów in Poland. Goole was informally twinned with Gibraltar in the 1960s; at that time, Gibraltar Court was named in Goole and Goole Court was named in Gibraltar. VARIOUS ARTISTS / SAY WHEN – EMBER SIXTIES POP VOLUME 1 (1960–1961) CD". Heyday-mo.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014 . Retrieved 29 January 2014.Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. The town is served by a weekly tabloid newspaper, The Goole Times, published since 1853 and sold in Goole and neighbouring parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire. [24] Anne Greaves (1889–1971) was the first woman to become a member of the Institute of Quarrying and created artificial stone through her quarrying company [30] [31] A new Morrisons store opened in Goole on 2 August 2010, on land previously occupied by Timms Mill on Boothferry Road. Today Goole railway station is at the junction of the Hull and Doncaster Branch and the Pontefract Line. Services are provided to Hull Paragon Interchange, Doncaster, Sheffield, Leeds and the commuter stations in between.

Goole historian debunks town's open sewer name origin". BBC News. 16 March 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. Goole has two football teams – Goole A.F.C. and Goole United A.F.C. They currently play in the Northern Premier League Division One South and the Humber Premier League Division One respectively. They both play at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds on Marcus Street. The nearest professional teams are Selby Town, Rotherham United, Doncaster Rovers, Grimsby Town, Hull City, Leeds United, Barnsley, Scunthorpe United, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and York City. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Humberside, Nation Radio East Yorkshire, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire and Radio Medica is a not-for-profit radio station broadcast from the Goole And District Hospital. [23] a b "Goole (East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom) – Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". Citypopulation.de . Retrieved 24 January 2023.The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway built a line from Pontefract and Wakefield in 1848 and the North Eastern Railway connected the port with Doncaster and Hull in 1870. [10] The prosperity from the coal and general cargo trade with the West Riding industrial area continued for 150 years after the opening of the canal. For most of its life, the port was most associated with the shipment of coal and associated cargoes, including the importation of pit props. With the demise of mining, the former Timber Pond became a marina, trading under the name Goole Boathouse. It has berths for 150 boats.

The town is referenced by the play An Inspector Calls, where the main character is named after the town of Goole Goole used to have two golf clubs. The early course, founded in 1900, was at Rawcliffe Park. The later course was at Airmyn Park from 1911 to the Second World War. [20] Currently Goole's nearest golf clubs are the Boothferry Golf Club in Spaldington and Drax Golf Club in Drax.

The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society, ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Betty, Hazel and Julie Dunderdale, who performed professionally as The Dale Sisters, a vocal trio that had limited chart success in the early 1960s [27] [28] Goole is in the parliamentary constituency of Brigg and Goole, which has been represented in the House of Commons since 2010 by Andrew Percy, a Conservative. Goole's industrial park, Capitol Park / Goole36, [14] has attracted two large employers: Guardian Industries, which built a glass-manufacturing plant, and Tesco, which built a distribution centre. The arrival of these employers resulted in the creation of hundreds of new jobs. [15]