Hull, Or Kingston-Npon-Hnll, a municipal and parliamentary borough and seaport of England, in the East riding of Yorkshire, on the • river Hull, at its mouth in the Humber, 34 m. S. E. of York, 154 m. N. of London, and 20 m. from the sea; pop. in 1871, 121,598. It is built on a low plain, protected against inundation by artificial means, and extends more than 2 m. along the W. bank of the Hull, and nearly the same distance along the N. bank of the Humber. The streets are very irregular, but are mostly well paved, lighted, and drained. The residences of the wealthy inhabitants are principally in the parish of Sculcoates and the quarter called Myton. A part of the town built along the left bank of the Hull is connected with the remainder by a bridge of four arches. On the point of land formed by the junction of the two rivers there is a fort which commands the whole harbor. Adjoining it is the Victoria dock. The old dock, opened in 1778 on the Hull, is nine acres in extent, and can accommodate 100 square-rigged ships. There is also a railway dock at the terminus of the Hull and Selby railway. Other docks have been built of late years, and the total area of all the docks of Hull in 1874 was about 87i acres.

The principal public buildings are the custom house, exchange, post office, mansion house, courts of law, jail and house of correction, assembly rooms and museum, concert rooms, two theatres, several banks, and corn exchange. The Holy Trinity church is a handsome cruciform edifice of several dates; the oldest portion was built in 1270. The town has several charitable schools, one of which educates 36 boys to be seamen, and is connected with the Trinity house founded in 1366 for the relief of decayed seamen and the widows of seamen. There is a marine hospital attached to it. Hull college, founded in 1838, occupies a fine Grecian building. There are also a lunatic asylum, a general infirmary, a school of medicine and anatomy, various literary associations with libraries, and botanic and zoological gardens and a "People's Park" of 27 acres given by Sir Z. 0. Pearson in 1864. The manufactures include canvas, chains, machinery, earthenware, chemicals, leather, sugar, cotton and linen goods, etc. There are ship-building yards, rope walks, saw mills, grist mills, bone mills, and oil mills. The principal exports are hardware and manufactures of cotton and woollen; the imports, timber, tar, pitch, rosin, grain, wool, flax, hemp, iron, hides, tallow, horns, bones, etc.

The trade is chiefly along the coast, with the Baltic ports, and with Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and America. Hull is an important station for steam packets which connect it with various ports of Great Britain and the continent, and also has railway communication with nearly all parts of the kingdom. The total imports in 1871 were valued at £15,076,095, the exports at £27,387,071. The entrances were 3,417 vessels, of 1,188,841 tons; clearances, 2,911 vessels, of 1,044,158 tons. Hull ranks as the third port in the kingdom.

Town Hall, Hull.