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Places to stay in Goole
The town of Goole is one of the most fascinating towns in England and,
though many people may not want to admit it, it can be argued that the
United Kingdom would be a lot worse off if it weren't for Goole. Its name
may make it sound like it isn't important but the fact of the matter is
that Goole is one of the most essential port towns in the country, if
not the entire world. The port is able to handle over three millions tons
of cargo per annum and you would be hard pressed to find any nation that
wouldn't jump at the chance of having such a versatile loading and unloading
area. In addition, the cargo handled in Goole has traditionally been extremely
essential material such as coal. By all accounts, Goole is nothing if
not downright essential to the economy of Britain. The interesting thing
about Goole, though, is that it has achieved its importance in a very
short amount of time. In a country where many of the towns date back to
the days of the Roman Empire, Goole is something of an infant in the grand
scheme of things. Goole as we know it wasn't even around in the early
seventeenth century.
It was thanks to a particularly bright civil engineer with the curious
name of Cornelius Vermuyden that Goole was able to come about in the first
place. Vermuyden was working for Charles I at the time and he was damming
the River Don and diverting it to the north so that Hatfield Chase could
be turned from a swampy wetland into a place where homes and a town could
be built.
This changed the makeup of the River Don and created a new mouth for it.
It was here that the town of Goole began to arise as the perfect port
area at the mouth of the new and improved Don. It would still be quite
some time until Goole would become the essential and indispensable town
that it is now but by the time the Industrial Revolution swept the world
it was undeniable that Goole was in the perfect position to take advantage
of this reshaping of the world in much the same way that it took advantage
of the reshaping of the River Don.
