Goole is a
town,
civil parish and
port located on the
River Ouse in the
East Riding of Yorkshire,
England, which achieved notoriety in 2000 for having the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in Britain - 13 times the national average. Although only 2 per cent of the population of the county lives there, the town is home to 12 per cent of the region's heroin users. The population as of the
2001 census was 17,600. Goole is twinned with
Złotów,
Poland (and was twinned with
Rostock, north of Germany in 1969 although this seems to have lapsed). Goole was twinned with
Gibraltar in the 1960s, at that time Gibraltar Court was named in Goole and Goole Court was named in Gibraltar.
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