Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

The town has the United Kingdom's furthest inland port, being about 50 miles (80 km) 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.

[7] It made the new lower Don – known as the Dutch River – navigable for barges so that coal from the South Yorkshire Coalfield could be transported to the new confluence for transfer to seagoing vessels.

Once it reached Goole the company proposed development of a new floating dock capable of handling larger sea-going vessels.

[7] Bartholomew commissioned civil engineer and builder Sir Edward Banks company to construct part of the canal and the eight transshipment docks and to lay out the associated new town to the west of the existing wooden bridge.

On reaching the docks the barges were lifted by large hoists, from which they could be discharged direct into seagoing ships, a system so successful that it competed against rail until 1985.

[10] The prosperity from the coal and general cargo trade with the West Riding industrial area continued for 150 years after the opening of the canal.

In the winter months Goole's gas holder on Anderson Road is visible across the north of the town.

There is a clock tower in the main shopping district of the town, originally built in 1927 but later moved a few metres to the middle of a new roundabout with the road surface on the site of the former open-air marketplace.

Goole has a modestly-sized town centre with many high street shops, independent retailers and public houses.

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

The plant, owned and operated by Siemens Mobility, is currently building the new tube trains for the Piccadilly line in London.

[16] A new Metsä Tissue toilet roll factory was announced 21 September 2023, to be built over the next decade at the new Goole site within the Humber Freeport, which allows companies to import goods tariff-free.

When completed it will have a capacity to produce 240,000 tonnes (260,000 tons) of tissue paper using fresh wood fibres grown in Nordic forests.

[17] Three locks keep the water in 37 acres (150,000 m2) of floating docks at a constant depth of 6 metres (20 ft) by preventing the level from rising and falling with the tides in the River Ouse.

After a period of decline, commodities were replaced by containers, the export of steel and the import of timber from north-eastern Europe.

Today, the Port of Goole has regular cargo liner services to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco and South Africa and a transshipment route to Europort, Rotterdam.