Queenborough

Queenborough
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Queenborough is located in Kent
Queenborough
Queenborough
Location within Kent
Population3,407 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceTQ908724
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townQUEENBOROUGH
Postcode districtME11
Dialling code01795
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Kent
51°25′06″N 0°44′42″E / 51.4183°N 0.7450°E / 51.4183; 0.7450

Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.

Queenborough is two miles (3 km) 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 offers moorings between the Thames and Medway. It is possible to land at Queenborough on any tide and there are boat builders and chandlers in the marina. Admiral Lord Nelson is reputed to have learned many of his seafaring skills in these waters, and also shared a house near the small harbour with his mistress, Lady Hamilton.

Queenborough today still reflects something of its original 18th-century seafaring history, from which period most of its more prominent buildings survive. The church is the sole surviving feature from the medieval period. The town was first represented by two members of parliament in 1572.

  1. ^ "Town population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.