Window Shutters in Queenborough

Queenborough

Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England. Queenborough is 2 miles (3 km) south of Sheerness. It grew 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 Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour supplies moorings between the Thames and also Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any type of tide as well as there are watercraft building contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have discovered most of his seafaring skills in these waters, and likewise shared a house near the little harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, where duration the majority of its more popular buildings make it through. The church is the sole surviving attribute from the middle ages duration. The town was first represented by 2 members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the church of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.