Editing Goole (section)

===Background===
The Dutch civil engineer [[Cornelius Vermuyden]] diverted the [[River Don, South Yorkshire|River Don]] northwards to the [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|River Ouse]] in 1626–1629 in order to drain the marshland of [[Hatfield Chase]] at the behest of [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]].<ref name=Porteous/> It made the new lower Don – known as the Dutch River – navigable for [[barge]]s so that [[coal]] from the [[South Yorkshire Coalfield]] could be transported to the new confluence for transfer to seagoing vessels. There the engineers built a new wooden bridge – rebuilt in iron in the 1890s and now known as the Dutch River Bridge – to the east of which a new village called 'Goole' formed.<ref name=Porteous>{{cite book|last=Porteous|first= J.&nbsp;D.|year=1969|title= The Company Town of Goole: An Essay in Urban Genesis|publisher= Hull University Press|pages =5–6}}</ref>