GOOLE, urban district, market town and river-port, in the Pontefract parliamentary division of the West Riding of York shire, England, at the confluence of the Don and the Ouse, 24 m. W. by S. from Hull, and served by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. rail ways. Pop. (1931), 2o,238. It is situated on very low-lying land, on the right bank of the Ouse, at its last bridging place. The river later widens to the broad channel of the Humber. The town owes its existence to the construction of the Knottingley canal, in 1826, by the Aire and Calder Navigation company, after which, in 1829, Goole was created a landing port. The port was administra tively combined with that of Hull in 1885. It is 47 m. from the North sea (mouth of the Humber), and a wide system of inland navigation opens from it. There are eight docks supplied with timber ponds, quays, warehouses, etc. The depth of water is 21 or 22 ft. at high water, spring tides. Chief exports are coal, stone, woollen goods, machinery, cotton (raw and waste), and hams; imports include butter, fruit, indigo, logwood, linen yarn, wool and timber. Iron founding and the manufacture of alum, sugar, rope and agricultural implements form the principal indus tries. Shipbuilding is also carried on, and there is a large dry dock and patent slip for repairing vessels. Passenger steamship services are worked in connection with the L.N.E. railway to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bruges, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and other north European ports.