Queenborough
Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is two miles (3 km) south of Sheerness. It expanded as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River Medway. It remains in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour offers moorings in between the Thames and also Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any kind of trend and also there are boat builders and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have actually discovered a lot of his seafaring abilities in these waters, as well as additionally shared a house near the little harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, where duration most of its more prominent structures survive. The church is the single surviving function from the middle ages period. The town was first represented by 2 members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the church of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.