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 Kingston upon Hull,
almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary
authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is
located 25 miles (40 km) from the North Sea on the River Hull at
its junction with the Humber estuary, near the Yorkshire coast.
Hull has a resident population of 256,200 (2006 est.).
Renamed
Kings Town upon Hull by King Edward I in 1299, the town and city of Hull
has served as market town, military supply port and staging area, trading
hub, fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis. Hull
was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars, and was the
backdrop to events leading to the abolition of the slave trade in
Britain.
It was
unique in the United Kingdom in having a municipally owned telephone
system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, telephone boxes. Hull does not
have a cathedral. After suffering heavy damage during the Second World
War, Hull weathered a period of post-industrial decline, when the city
gained unfavourable results on measures of social deprivation, education
and policing. However, the city has recently embarked on a programme of
regeneration and renewal and a range of sporting and cultural activities
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