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. Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google. Goole toilet roll factory to create 400 new jobs, Finnish firm says". BBC News. 21 September 2023 . Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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. 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] 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] Goole historian debunks town's open sewer name origin". BBC News. 16 March 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. According to the 2021 UK census, Goole parish had a population of 21,952, [1] It is 16 miles (26km) north-east of Doncaster, 19 miles (31km) south of York and 29 miles (47km) west of Hull.Registered Charities in England and Wales: Radio Medica Goole Hospitals Internal Broadcasting Service". Charity Commission for England and Wales. 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 south of the M62 linking it with Kingston upon Hull in the east and Leeds and the West Yorkshire urban belt in the west. To the north the A63 road via Howden provides local access to the A19 road to Selby and York. The M18 runs west of the town, connecting it with South Yorkshire, the South and the Midlands. Bus services to surrounding towns and villages are provided by East Yorkshire Motor Services, Stagecoach in Hull and Arriva Yorkshire. [11] Governance [ edit ] 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. The town is referenced by the play An Inspector Calls, where the main character is named after the town of Goole Lea, Robert (16 June 2018). "Siemens will build factory in UK after winning Tube train contract". The Times. No.72563. p.55. ISSN 0140-0460. 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]

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. 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. 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] 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]

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.

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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 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.