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Kingston upon Hull, more usually referred to simply as Hull, is a city and unitary authority which is situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary in northern England.

It is surrounded by the East Riding of Yorkshire and forms part of that county for ceremonial purposes. It is part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

HULL's most famous adopted son, the poet and university librarian Philip Larkin, wrote "I wish I could think of just one nice thing to tell you about Hull, oh yes ? it's very nice and flat for cycling ". Harsh perhaps, but it does capture something of the character of a town that reaches few heights, physical or otherwise. The town - rarely known by its full title of Kingston-upon-Hull - undoubtedly suited the poet's curmudgeonly temperament, but he might have mentioned Hull's self-reliant and no-nonsense atmosphere, or that the old docks and restored town centre are surprisingly appealing. Hull's maritime pre-eminence dates back to 1299, when it was laid out as a seaport by Edward I. It quickly became England's leading harbour, and was still a vital garrison when the gates were closed against Charles I in 1642, the first serious act of rebellion of what was to become the English Civil War. The central Princes Dock sets the tone for Hull's modern refurbishment, the once abandoned waters now lined by landscaped brick promenades and overlooked by Princes Quay , a multi-tier, glass-spangled shopping centre, with the revamped marina beyond.

The town's maritime legacy is exhaustively detailed in the excellent Maritime Museum (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1.30-4.30pm; free), housed in the Neoclassical headquarters of the former Town Docks Offices, flanking the east side of Queen Victoria Square, north of Princes Quay. The main boost to the town's coffers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was whaling, and the museum tells the story well, displaying gruesome whaling equipment, such as a blubber pot cauldron, alongside model ships, old photographs, Inuit relics and a whale skeleton. Leave Queen Victoria Square on its east side by pedestrianized Whitefriargate and, after about 200 yards, turn right down Trinity House Lane for Holy Trinity (April-Sept Mon-Fri 11am-3pm, Sat 9.30am-noon; Oct-March Tues-Fri 11am-2pm, Sat 9.30am-noon; free), among the most pleasing parish churches in the country, notable for its brick transepts and chancel. Close by is one of Hull's most revered relics - the Old Grammar School , a red-brick edifice built in 1583 and which for 120 years doubled as the town's Merchant Adventurers' Hall. As a school, it numbered amongst its pupils William Wilberforce, instigator of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell, also MP for Hull. (Hull-born Stevie Smith, incidentally, completes the town's poetic triumvirate.) Two blocks east you hit the High Street , whose crop of older buildings and narrow cobbled alleys have seen it designated an "Old Town Conservation Area". At its northern end stands Wilberforce House (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1.30-4.30pm; free), the former home of William and containing some fascinating exhibits on slavery and its abolition.

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