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GOOLE , a marketSee also: town and See also: port in the Osgoldcross See also: parliamentary division of the 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
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W. by S. from See also: Hull, served by the See also: North Eastern, See also: Lancashire & Yorkshire, See also: Great Central and Asholme joint See also: railways
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Pop. of See also: urban See also: district (19o1) 16,J76
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The town owes its existence to the construction of the Knottingley canal in 1826 by the See also: Aire and See also: Calder Navigation See also: Company, after which, in 1829, Goole was made a bonding port
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Previously it had been an obscure See also: hamlet
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The port was administratively combined with. that of Hull in 1885
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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
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There are eight docks supplied with See also: timber ponds, quays, warehouses and other accommodation
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The See also: depth of See also: water is 21 or 22 ft. at high water, spring tides
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Chief exports are See also: coal, See also: stone, woollen goods and machinery; imports, butter, fruit, indigo, logwood, timber and wool
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See also: Industries include the manufacture of See also: alum, See also: sugar, rope and agricultural See also: instruments, and iron-founding
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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
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Passenger steamship services are worked in connexion with the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway to See also: Amsterdam, See also: Antwerp, Bruges, See also: Copenhagen, See also: Rotterdam and other north See also: European ports
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The handsome See also: church of St
See also: John the Evangelist, with a lofty tower and
See also: spire, See also: dates from 1844
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