Goole, the ‘port in green fields’ once at centre of Yorkshire coalfields industry and a town on the up. Known as the ‘port in green fields’, Goole has a lot more to it than just its industrial heritage, as Lucy Oates discovered.

The port town of Goole was established only 200 years ago, which makes it a relative youngster in the long history of East Yorkshire. Its fortunes have undoubtedly risen and fallen at different points during the last two centuries but, with hundreds of new homes and jobs being created and a £750,000 slice of the Government’s Town Deal funding on the way, its future is looking very bright indeed.

Although Goole can trace the origins of its name back to the less than salubrious sounding Anglo-Saxon word for an “open sewer” or “outlet to a river”, previous settlements in the area centred upon the nearby farming villages of Airmyn and Hook. King Charles I had paved the way for the surrounding land to be used for arable farming when he granted a charter to the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden, allowing the River Don to be diverted into the Ouse, rather than the Aire.

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