Body, Geoffrey (1986). Railways of the Eastern Region. Vol. 1, Southern operating area. Wellingborough: Stephens. p.74. ISBN 0850597129.

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] 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. Registered Charities in England and Wales: Radio Medica Goole Hospitals Internal Broadcasting Service". Charity Commission for England and Wales. 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 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.List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°41′57″N 0°52′09″W / 53.699217°N 0.869171°W / 53.699217; -0.869171

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] Goole toilet roll factory to create 400 new jobs, Finnish firm says". BBC News. 21 September 2023 . Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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. 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 new Morrisons store opened in Goole on 2 August 2010, on land previously occupied by Timms Mill on Boothferry Road.

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. The town is referenced by the play An Inspector Calls, where the main character is named after the town of Goole 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 ]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. Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google. 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. 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.

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] 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.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] Goole historian debunks town's open sewer name origin". BBC News. 16 March 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. 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.