Queenborough
Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of Sheerness. It grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entry to the Swale where it joins the River Medway. It is in the Sittingbourne as well as Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour offers moorings between the Thames and also Medway. It is feasible to land at Queenborough on any tide as well as there are boat builders and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have discovered a number of his seafaring skills in these waters, as well as likewise shared a residence near the little harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its original 18th-century seafaring background, from which period a lot of its even more popular structures make it through. The church is the sole surviving feature from the medieval period. The community was first stood for by two members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the church of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.