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Unusually for a town nearly 50 miles inland, the East Riding town of Goole derives most of its income from the sea â€“ indeed it was largely created as a new town in the early 19th century when the waterways between the South Yorkshire coalfield and Goole were improved, and two docks built where coal brought on barges could be loaded onto seagoing vessels for shipment to ports in Britain and beyond. The town does have roots before that time. Its name, rather unenticingly, is said to come from the Anglo-Saxon for open sewer, or a little more palatably to mean outlet of a river â€“ in this case, the Don, the stretch near Goole though is known locally as the Dutch River because of the engineering work done by Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden in diverting its course and draining Hatfield Chase, supposedly to enable Charles I to be able to plan his hunts there and not worry if it would be flooded.

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