Hook
Hook is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles north-east of Goole town centre and lies on the west bank of the River Ouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,290 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Howden Dyke Island and Goole and District Hospital.
Howden Dyke Island
Nature reserve
Photo: Christine Johnstone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Howden Dyke Island is a 19-acre island in the River Ouse, Yorkshire. More accurately a shoal between seasonally varying flows, the area regularly above water is roughly 1,380 by 890 feet.
Goole and District Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Paul Harrop, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Goole and District Hospital is a hospital in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is managed by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Goole railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Goole railway station is a railway station in the port town of Goole on the Hull and Doncaster Branch in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The station and its passenger services are managed and provided by Northern. Goole railway station is situated 1½ miles southwest of Hook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skelton and Howdendyke.
Skelton
Village
Photo: Roger Gilbertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skelton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kilpin, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and a linear settlement on the east bank of the River Ouse.
Howdendyke
Village
Photo: George Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Howdendyke is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north of Goole town centre and about 1 mile south of Howden.
Goole
Town
Photo: David Locke, CC BY 2.0.
Goole is a port town and civil parish on the River Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town's historic county is the West Riding of Yorkshire. Goole is situated 1½ miles southwest of Hook.
Hook
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Hook, East Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.72109° or 53° 43′ 16″ northLongitude
-0.84756° or 0° 50′ 51″ westPopulation
1,290Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
9C5XP5C2+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 76682590OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2646652Wikidata ID
Q2952598
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Hook” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hook”
- Dutch: “Hook”
- French: “Hook (Yorkshire de l’Est)”
- French: “Hook”
- Irish: “Hook”
- Italian: “Hook”
- Ladin: “Hook”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hōc, East Þriðing”
- Polish: “Hook”
- Swedish: “Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Hook”
- Turkish: “Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kilpin and Goole Dock.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hook Memorial Hall and Hook Park.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hook”. Photo: Martin Loader, CC BY-SA 2.0.