Kingston upon Hull

Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. It is surrounded by the East Riding of Yorkshire, but is a unitary authority. The council is today called Hull City Council, and refers to the city as Hull.

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Unlike many other aged English cities, Hull has no cathedral. It does, however, contain the Holy Trinity Church, which claims to be the largest parish church in England.

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Cities - Cathedral - Holy Trinity - Parish church - England

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Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep. It also features the University of Hull as well as a smaller campus for the University of Lincoln, and a large FE college, Hull College. Hull is the home of the Queens Gardens, the Hull Marina and is close to the Humber Bridge, the fourth-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.

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Wilberforce House - Ferens Art Gallery - Spurn Lightship - Arctic Corsair - The Deep - University of Hull - University of Lincoln - FE - Hull College - Queens Gardens - Hull Marina - Humber Bridge

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The city has a football team playing at national league level, Hull City, who play at the Kingston Communications Stadium.

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Football - National league - Hull City - Kingston Communications Stadium

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The city has two national league Rugby League teams, Hull FC who, along with Hull City AFC, play at the Kingston Communications Stadium and Hull Kingston Rovers playing at "New" Craven Park.

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Rugby League - Hull FC - Hull Kingston Rovers

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Hull is the only city in the UK with its own independent telephone network company, Kingston Communications, with its distinctive cream telephone boxes. Formed in the 1910s as a municipal department by the City Council, it remains the only locally-operated telephone company in the UK, although now privatised. Kingston upon Hull has one of the most advanced computer networks in the world — a metropolitan area network.

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Telephone - Kingston Communications - Telephone boxes - 1910s - Computer network - Metropolitan area network

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The local accent is distinctive and noticeably different from the standard Yorkshire accent. The most notable feature of the accent is the strong "goat fronting"; a word like goat, which is {{IPA|}} in standard (southern) English and {{IPA|}} across most of Yorkshire, becomes {{IPA|}} ("geurt") in and around Hull.

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Accent - Yorkshire accent - Goat fronting - Standard (southern) English

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Hull's daily newspaper is the Hull Daily Mail. BBC Radio Humberside, Viking FM, and the University of Hull's Jam 1575 all broadcast to the city.

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Hull Daily Mail - BBC Radio Humberside - Viking FM - Jam 1575

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Transport within the city is provided by two main bus operators — Stagecoach in Hull and East Yorkshire Motor Services. A smaller operator, Alpha Bus and Coach, provides one of the three Park and Ride services in the city, whilst East Yorkshire and Stagecoach provide the other two.

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Stagecoach in Hull - East Yorkshire Motor Services - Park and Ride

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Hull is twinned with Freetown in Sierra Leone, Niigata in Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina in the USA, Reykjavik in Iceland, Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland. Hull, Massachusetts in the USA is named for this city, as is Hull, Quebec, which is part of the Canadian national capital region.

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Freetown - Sierra Leone - Niigata - Japan - Raleigh, North Carolina - USA - Reykjavik - Iceland - Rotterdam - Netherlands - Szczecin - Poland - Hull, Massachusetts - Hull, Quebec - Canadian

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