Editing Goole (section)

=== Etymology ===
Goole is first attested in 1306, as ''Gull Lewth'' (where ''lewth'' means 'barn', from [[Old Norse]] ''hlaða''), and then 1362 as ''Gulle in Houke''' (referring to the nearby, and then more significant, village of [[Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire|Hook]]). The name is first attested in its shorter, modern form, from the 1530s. It comes from the [[Middle English]] word ''goule'' (or an [[Old English]] ancestor), meaning 'a channel made by a stream'.<ref>''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'', ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).</ref><ref>''Yorkshire Historical Dictionary'', s.v. [https://yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/gull  gull].</ref> The word has sometimes been taken to imply that Goole is named after an open sewer, but there is no strong basis for this.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 March 2022 |title=Goole historian debunks town's open sewer name origin |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-60767916|access-date=26 March 2022|work=BBC News}}</ref>  There were no sewers in the area in that etymological period but there were many land drains because of the flat terrain: cf.: "gully".