Kingstown Hotel, Kingston upon Hull

at , Kingston upon Hull , HU12 8 United Kingdom

1. Local Business

<p><b>Hull</b>, officially <b>Kingston upon Hull</b>, is a <a href="/pages/w/115716011777990">city</a> and <a href="/pages/w/132769060094278">unitary authority area</a> in the <a href="/pages/w/126045574105455">ceremonial county</a> of the <a href="/pages/w/105623922804896">East Riding of Yorkshire</a>, England. It stands on the <a href="/pages/w/112742128774716">River Hull</a> at its junction with the <a href="/pages/w/111982155481185">Humber estuary</a>, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the <a href="/pages/w/108125989208274">North Sea</a>. Hull has a resident population of.</p><p>The town of Hull was founded late in the 12th century. The monks of <a href="/pages/w/110381462348039">Meaux Abbey</a> needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported. They chose a place at the junction of the rivers Hull and Humber to build a quay.</p><p>The exact year the town was founded is not known but it was first mentioned in 1193, as Wyke on Hull. Renamed <i>Kings-town upon Hull</i> by <a href="/pages/w/105702572797651">King Edward I</a> in 1299, the town and city of Hull has served as <a href="/pages/w/115679965113758">market town</a>, military supply port, a trading hub, fishing and whaling centre, and industrial metropolis.</p><p>Hull was an early theatre of battle in the <a href="/pages/w/132178050152860">English Civil Wars</a>. Its 18th-century Member of Parliament, <a href="/pages/w/103127583060565">William Wilberforce</a>, played a key role in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.</p><p>The city is unique in the UK in having had a <a href="/pages/w/112596078756925">municipally</a> owned telephone system from 1902, sporting cream, not red, <a href="/pages/w/111181565569449">telephone boxes</a>.</p>

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Kingstown Hotel, Kingston upon Hull is Kingston upon Hull based place and this enity listed in Local Business category. HU12 8.