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 kilometres) south of Sheerness. It expanded as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entryway to the Swale where it signs up with the River Medway. It is in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour supplies moorings in between the Thames and also Medway. It is feasible to land at Queenborough on any tide and also there are boat building contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have actually found out a lot of his seafaring skills in these waters, and also shared a residence near the small harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its initial 18th-century seafaring history, from which period the majority of its more noticeable buildings endure. The church is the sole making it through function from the middle ages duration. 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.
