Kingston upon Hull : Britain
Kingston upon Hull : Britain
Kingston upon Hull : Britain
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.
Unusually for an historic English city, Hull has no cathedral. It does, however, have the Holy Trinity church, claimed to be the largest parish church in England.
Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens 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. Hull is the home of the Queens Gardens and the Humber Bridge, the third-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.
The city has a football team playing at national league level, Hull City A.F.C. who play at the Kingston Communications Stadium.
The city has two national league Rugby League teams, Hull FC who, along with Hull City FC play at the Kingston Communications Stadium and Hull Kingston Rovers playing at ‘New’ Craven Park.
Hull is the only city in the UK with its own independent telephone network company, Kingston Communications, with 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.
Hull’s daily newspaper is the Hull Daily Mail and BBC Radio Humberside, Viking FM and the University of Hull’s Jam 1575 all broadcast to the city.