Queenborough
Queenborough is a 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 entrance to the Swale where it joins the River Medway. It is in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour offers moorings in between the Thames as well as Medway. It is feasible to land at Queenborough on any trend as well as there are boat building contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is understood to have learned a number of his seafaring abilities in these waters, and additionally shared a home near the little harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, where period the majority of its even more famous buildings make it through. The church is the single enduring function from the middle ages duration. The community was first represented by two members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the parish of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.
