Queenborough
Queenborough is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district 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 is in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour provides moorings in between the Thames and also Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any type of tide and also there are watercraft builders as well as chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is understood to have actually learned a number of his seafaring skills in these waters, as well as also shared a residence near the little harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its initial 18th-century seafaring background, where period most of its more noticeable structures endure. The church is the single making it through feature from the middle ages period. The town 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.
