Queenborough
Queenborough is a small 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 signs up with the River Medway. It remains in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour supplies moorings in between the Thames and also Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any tide and there are boat builders and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is deemed to have learned much of his seafaring skills in these waters, as well as additionally shared a residence near the tiny harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, where period most of its even more prominent buildings survive. The church is the single surviving feature from the medieval period. 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.
