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] 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. The town is referenced by the play An Inspector Calls, where the main character is named after the town of Goole List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°41′57″N 0°52′09″W / 53.699217°N 0.869171°W / 53.699217; -0.869171

Body, Geoffrey (1986). Railways of the Eastern Region. Vol. 1, Southern operating area. Wellingborough: Stephens. p.74. ISBN 0850597129. Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google.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. History of Goole, in East Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description". Visionofbritain.org.uk . Retrieved 25 November 2020. 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 ] Glass is produced in Goole, which is also the centre of an agricultural district. The town's former large employer was a clothing manufacture for the big multiples, but it closed in the late 2000s.

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. 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. The town has the United Kingdom's furthest inland port, being about 50 miles (80km) from the North Sea. [2] It is capable of handling nearly 2 million tonnes of cargo per year, making it one of the most important ports on England's east coast. [3] 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.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] 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.

A new Morrisons store opened in Goole on 2 August 2010, on land previously occupied by Timms Mill on Boothferry Road. 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]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). Goole historian debunks town's open sewer name origin". BBC News. 16 March 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2022.