Queenborough
Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough 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 entry to the Swale where it signs up with the River Medway. It is in the Sittingbourne and also Sheppey legislative constituency. Queenborough Harbour uses moorings in between the Thames as well as Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any type of trend and there are boat home builders and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is considered to have actually learned a number of his seafaring abilities in these waters, and likewise shared a home near the tiny harbour with his girlfriend, Lady Hamilton. Queenborough today still shows something of its initial 18th-century seafaring history, from which period the majority of its more noticeable buildings survive. The church is the sole surviving feature from the middle ages 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.