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40-526: The Goole Steam Shipping Company was a company based in Goole , England from 1864 to 1905 which operated steamship services from Goole to northern European ports. The Goole Steam Shipping Company was established in 1864 to take over the failed business of Watson, Cunliffe and Company , who had been operating a regular steam boat service from Goole to West Continental Ports. It was established with capital of £100,000 (equivalent to $ 12,420,000 in 2023) with

80-538: A capacity to produce 240,000 tonnes (260,000 tons) of tissue paper using fresh wood fibres grown in Nordic forests. Three locks keep the water in 37 acres (150,000 m ) of floating docks at a constant depth of 6 metres (20 ft) by preventing the level from rising and falling with the tides in the River Ouse. Once ships are within the complex, eight docks provide a total quayside of 3 miles (4.8 km). Beside

120-401: A certain point, meaning that the ships in the dock remain afloat, although they still fall with the first ebb of the tide. Half tide docks were only useful for ships of shallow draught, in areas with a large tidal range. The tide must rise sufficiently to give them a clear passage over the raised sill. In 1775 Hull's Old Dock was opened. This was the first commercial floating dock, isolated by

160-422: A lock rather than a single lock gate. This allowed the dock's water level to be maintained and, more importantly, it increased the time for which tidal access was possible. However the lock was only 121 ft long and this limited the number of ships passing through it. One of the first large fully floating docks was that of Bristol's Floating Harbour , built in 1809 to a plan by William Jessop . This involved

200-569: A mechanical pumping, or impounding , station was constructed. Liverpool's northern docks were served by one at Huskisson Dock and one on the opposite side of the Mersey for Wallasey Dock . Bow Locks in East London has used a bi-directional system since the year 2000 permitting boats to transfer between the tidal Bow Creek and Limehouse Cut. Bow Locks permits transfer near top of tide whether it be neap or spring. Generally inbounds enter on

240-459: A number of tidal basins and half tide docks . Ships could move through the interlinked docks 24 hours a day without moving into the tidal River Mersey, which would necessitate a pilot. Floating docks are generally maintained at a level at least as high as the highest tide. Apart from any considerations of navigation, lock gates are usually arranged as a chevron. and can only hold back higher water in one direction, which must always be from within

280-482: A system so successful that it competed against rail until 1985. Goole has several primary schools as well as Goole High School, run by Delta group , and a special needs school, Riverside School , that caters for 2–19 year olds. There are further education colleges in Selby , York , Scunthorpe , and Bishop Burton . Goole College was closed in 2021 and is now being used as a temporary Gym while Goole Leisure Centre

320-465: A transshipment route to Europort , Rotterdam . Goole Town Cricket Club supports local cricket teams. Of its three teams, the first team plays in the club cricket York & District Senior League. A new clubhouse was constructed in 1996 providing facilities and a bar. Rugby Union is played close to the cricket club at Westfield Banks, sharing facilities with Goole Tennis Club and Goole Viking Striders running club. Goole RUFC currently fields two teams,

360-607: Is a not-for-profit radio station broadcast from the Goole And District Hospital. 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. The town is referenced by the play An Inspector Calls , where the main character is named after the town of Goole Floating dock (impounded) At

400-705: 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 . At the 2021 UK census , Goole parish had a population of 20,475. It is 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Doncaster , 19 miles (31 km) south of York and 29 miles (47 km) west of Hull . The town has the United Kingdom's furthest inland port , being about 50 miles (80 km) from

440-473: Is redeveloped. 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. 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. Today Goole railway station is at the junction of

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480-769: 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 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

520-723: The North Sea . 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. 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. Goole is first attested in 1306, as Gull Lewth (where lewth means 'barn', from Old Norse hlaða ), and then 1362 as Gulle in Houke' (referring to

560-598: The South Yorkshire Coalfield could be transported to the new confluence for transfer to seagoing vessels. There the engineers built a new wooden bridge – rebuilt in iron in the 1890s and now known as the Dutch River Bridge – to the east of which a new village called 'Goole' formed. In the 1820s the Aire and Calder Navigation company proposed development of a new canal to transport coal from

600-818: The Second World War. Currently Goole's nearest golf clubs are the Boothferry Golf Club in Spaldington and Drax Golf Club in Drax . Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Belmont TV transmitters, However, on Sky and Freesat , residents in the town are allocated BBC One Yorkshire on 101 and ITV Yorkshire West on 103. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Humberside , Nation Radio East Yorkshire , Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire , Capital Yorkshire and Radio Medica

640-494: 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 . 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

680-711: The Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company which owned 11 vessels. In 1905 the company was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and all 19 of its steamers transferred to the new owner. Ships ordered new by the Goole Steam Shipping Company Ships acquired from the Humber Steam Shipping Company in 1895 Ships acquired from the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company in 1895 Goole Goole

720-532: The area in that etymological period but there were many land drains because of the flat terrain: c.f.: "gully". The Dutch civil engineer Cornelius Vermuyden diverted the River Don northwards to the River Ouse in 1626–1629 in order to drain the marshland of Hatfield Chase at the behest of King Charles I . It made the new lower Don – known as the Dutch River – navigable for barges so that coal from

760-485: The canal and the eight transshipment docks and to lay out the associated new town to the west of the existing wooden bridge. The Banks Arms Hotel on Aire Street – today known as the Lowther Hotel – was in 1824 the first building constructed in what was known as New Goole; The Macintosh Arms public house on the same street took its name from engineer Hugh Macintosh . When Goole port opened on 20 July 1826 it

800-550: The county of Humberside until that was abolished in 1996. Since 1996 Goole has been in the East Riding of Yorkshire . It is represented by four councillors on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council . Goole is in the parliamentary constituency of Goole and Pocklington , which has been represented in the House of Commons since 2024 by David Davis , a Conservative . Goole's most prominent landmarks are its twin water towers , nicknamed 'salt' and 'pepper'. The new white water-tower

840-548: The diversion of the River Avon (Bristol) away from its previous route through the harbour and into a new channel at the New Cut . Entrance to the harbour was now gained through an entrance basin, at what is now Cumberland Basin . Although linked by locks to the harbour and the river, the intention was that the basin would itself be used as an entrance lock: rather than locking each ship through one-by-one, ships could wait for

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880-600: The dock. A small but significant example of this is the locking system on the River Darent in Dartford, now in restoration and which were fully operational between 1899 and 1983. Maintaining this higher level requires a supply of water. In some cases this is available from a river flowing into the harbour. This was the case for Bristol, at least initially, with the River Frome . Where there was no such river source,

920-412: The dock. Although this short opening period may have seemed disruptive, any attempt at longer opening might allow dock water-level to fall with the ebbing tide thus interfering with the wharf-side level of every ship in the basin. A half tide dock is a partially tidal dock. They need have no gate, but as the tide ebbs a raised sill or weir on the floor of the dock prevents the level dropping below

960-409: The docks are transit sheds where cargo is stored, many of them equipped with overhead cranes. Unlike many ports, every one of the eight docks has been in full commercial operation since its construction in the period from 1826 to 1912. 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,

1000-484: The existing broad canal from Knottingley in the northern sector of the coalfield in 1826. Once it reached Goole the company proposed development of a new floating dock capable of handling larger sea-going vessels. Chief engineer Thomas Hamond Bartholomew was instructed to build the canal, docks and an associated company town to house both the dock workers and visiting seamen. Bartholomew commissioned civil engineer and builder Sir Edward Banks company to construct part of

1040-423: The first commercial wet dock, Liverpool 's Old Dock , opened. Early docks were of simple construction: a single lock gate isolating them from the tidal water. The gates were opened during the last hour [or two] of the rising tide, giving a short window of opportunity to let ships in on the rise and releasing outgoing ships while the tide was on the turn. The gates were closed at top of tide to maintain levels within

1080-813: The first team playing in Yorkshire Division Two. From 2025, Goole Vikings rugby league club will compete in League 1 . Goole Tennis Centre is a nine-court tennis club on the Westfield Banks site. 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

1120-532: The former Timber Pond became a marina, trading under the name Goole Boathouse . It has berths for 150 boats. After a period of decline, commodities were replaced by containers, the export of steel and the import of timber from north-eastern Europe. Today, the Port of Goole has regular cargo liner services to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco and South Africa and

1160-528: The height of the harbour water by a broad weir , built as a dam across the previous route of the river. Levels were maintained by the flow of the small River Frome which still flowed into the harbour. As one of the first industrialised ports, Liverpool was at the forefront of dock development from the early 18th century. A network of inter-linked docks developed along the length of the River Mersey shoreline. These were floating docks, with access through

1200-460: The late 2000s. Goole's industrial park, Capitol Park / Goole36, 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. A new Morrisons store opened in Goole on 2 August 2010, on land previously occupied by Timms Mill on Boothferry Road. A new railway rolling stock factory

1240-419: The main shopping area). There is a modern retail development in the town centre, a leisure centre next to the docks and the Goole and District Hospital , to the north of the town. A theatre and cinema, 'Junction', opened in 2009. 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

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1280-456: The main shopping district of the town, originally built in 1927 but later moved a few meters to the middle of a new roundabout with the road surface on the site of the former open-air marketplace . West Park is an Edwardian park in the town. Goole has a modestly sized town centre with many high street shops, independent retailers and public houses . The main shopping area is Wesley Square, off Boothferry Road (which has been pedestrianised around

1320-461: The most basic level, a floating dock is isolated from tidal water by a lock gate , at least, although in many dock systems the entrance is more complex than this. The first wet dock was Howland Great Wet Dock or Greenland Dock, built in London at the end of the 17th century. This was not a commercial dock and had no warehouses, but was intended solely for ship replenishment and refitting. In 1715

1360-462: The nearby, and then more significant, village of Hook ). The name is first attested in its shorter, modern form, from the 1530s. It comes from the Middle English word goule (or an Old English ancestor), meaning 'a channel made by a stream'. The word has sometimes been taken to imply that Goole is named after an open sewer, but there is no strong basis for this. There were no sewers in

1400-434: The object of continuing the several Trades already existing between the Port of Goole and Antwerp, Rotterdam, Ghent and Dunkirk, and to extend them not only to those Ports, but to other places.... The directors were: The company had the distinctive funnel-colouring of dark buff with red bank and black top. In 1895 the company took over two other shipping concerns, the Humber Steam Shipping Company which owned 3 vessels, and

1440-439: The tide inside the basin and then the outer lock gates could both be opened allowing all to leave and arrive together. For a port with such a convoluted and tide-dependent approach as Bristol's, any easing of access was valuable. As the harbour now need never be connected directly to the tidal waters, its water level could be held constant, without even the small variation of the hours around high tide. At Bristol, Jessop controlled

1480-703: 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 . Before the reform of local government in 1974, brought about by the Local Government Act 1972 , Goole was in the West Riding of Yorkshire . It was then placed in the Boothferry district of

1520-487: Was a new community of about 450 people. Now it is a town with about 18,000 inhabitants. William Hamond Bartholomew succeeded his father T. H. Bartholomew in 1853 and in 1863 introduced the Tom Pudding system of compartment boats, which could carry around 40 long tons (41,000 kg) of coal. On reaching the docks the barges were lifted by large hoists, from which they could be discharged direct into seagoing ships,

1560-675: Was built at the Capitol Park / Goole36 location opening in 2024. The plant, owned and operated by Siemens Mobility , is currently building the new tube trains for the Piccadilly line in London . A new Metsä Tissue toilet roll factory was announced 21 September 2023, to be built over the next decade at the new Goole site within the Humber Freeport, which allows companies to import goods tariff-free. When completed it will have

1600-463: Was the largest in Europe at the time of construction. In the winter months Goole's gas holder on Anderson Road is visible across the north of the town. Many of the hoists and cranes on the dockside can be seen across the town. The steeple of Goole Parish Church is tall enough to be seen across the town. The townscape is made up mostly of utility and industrial structures. There is a clock tower in

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