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 grew 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 Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any type of tide and also there are boat contractors and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is understood to have actually discovered many of his seafaring skills in these waters, and additionally shared a home near the small harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still shows something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, where period a lot of its even more popular buildings make it through. The church is the sole making it through function from the medieval duration. The town was first stood for by 2 members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the church of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.
