Queenborough
Queenborough is a village 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 entry to the Swale where it joins the River Medway. It remains in the Sittingbourne and Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour provides moorings between the Thames and also Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any type of trend as well as there are watercraft contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have actually found out a number of his seafaring abilities in these waters, and also shared a home near the little harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its initial 18th-century seafaring history, from which duration a lot of its even more prominent structures endure. The church is the sole making it through feature from the medieval duration. The town was first stood for by two members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the parish of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.