Queenborough
Queenborough is a town 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 Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour supplies moorings between the Thames and also Medway. It is feasible to land at Queenborough on any type of trend and also there are watercraft building contractors and also chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have actually found out many of his seafaring skills in these waters, and additionally shared a residence near the little harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still reflects something of its original 18th-century seafaring background, from which duration the majority of its even more popular structures survive. The church is the sole making it through function from the medieval period. 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.