Queenborough
Queenborough is a small town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale district 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 joins the River Medway. It remains in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey parliamentary constituency. Queenborough Harbour provides moorings in between the Thames and Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any kind of trend as well as there are watercraft contractors and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is deemed to have actually learned a number of his seafaring skills in these waters, and likewise shared a home near the little harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still mirrors something of its original 18th-century seafaring background, where period most of its more prominent buildings survive. The church is the single making it through function from the middle ages duration. The community was first stood for by 2 members of parliament in 1572. At the 2001 UK census, the parish of Queenborough had a population of 3,471.