Queenborough
Queenborough is a village 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 expanded as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it signs up with the River Medway. It remains in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour uses moorings between the Thames and Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any tide and also there are watercraft building contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is considered to have discovered a lot of his seafaring skills in these waters, and additionally shared a home near the little harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its initial 18th-century seafaring history, where duration most of its even more noticeable buildings endure. The church is the sole enduring function from the middle ages period. The community was first stood for by 2 members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the parish of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.
