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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOOLE , a See also:

market See also:town and See also:port in the Osgoldcross See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:West See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, at the confluence of the See also:Don and the See also:Ouse, 24 M. W. by S. from See also:Hull, served by the See also:North Eastern, See also:Lancashire & Yorkshire, See also:Great Central and Asholme See also:joint See also:railways. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1) 16,J76. The town owes its existence to the construction of the Knottingley See also:canal in 1826 by the See also:Aire and See also:Calder See also:Navigation See also:Company, after which, in 1829, Goole was made a bonding port. Previously it had been an obscure See also:hamlet. The port was administratively combined with. that of Hull in 1885. It is 47 M. from the North See also:Sea (mouth of the See also:Humber), and a wide See also:system of inland navigation opens from it. There are eight docks supplied with See also:timber ponds, quays, warehouses and other See also:accommodation. The See also:depth of See also:water is 21 or 22 ft. at high water, See also:spring tides. See also:Chief exports are See also:coal, See also:stone, woollen goods and machinery; imports, See also:butter, See also:fruit, See also:indigo, See also:logwood, timber and See also:wool. See also:Industries include the manufacture of See also:alum, See also:sugar, rope and agricultural See also:instruments, and See also:iron-See also:founding. See also:Ship-See also:building is also carried on, and there is a large dry See also:dock and apatent slip for repairing vessels.

Passenger steamship services are worked in connexion with the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway to See also:

Amsterdam, See also:Antwerp, See also:Bruges, See also:Copenhagen, See also:Rotterdam and other north See also:European ports. The handsome See also:church of St See also:John the Evangelist, with a lofty See also:tower and See also:spire, See also:dates from 1844.

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