Queenborough
Queenborough is a village 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 grew as a port near the Thames Estuary at the westward entrance to the Swale where it joins the River Medway. It is in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour uses moorings in between the Thames as well as Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any tide and there are boat builders and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is deemed to have actually learned much of his seafaring skills in these waters, as well as likewise shared a residence near the small harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its initial 18th-century seafaring background, from which period a lot of its even more noticeable structures endure. The church is the single making it through function from the medieval duration. The community was first represented by two members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the church of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.