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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 .
The constituency of Queenborough was a rotten borough situated on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. From 1572 until it was abolished by the Reform Act 1832 , it returned two Members of Parliament . The franchise was vested in the freemen of the town, of whom there were more than 300.
Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in England. The castle and the associated planned town were built on the orders of King Edward III from 1361 and named in honour his wife, Queen Philippa .
Queenborough Guildhall is a former municipal building in the High Street in Queenborough, Kent, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II listed building . [ 1 ]
Queenborough-in-Sheppey was a municipal borough in Kent, England from 1968 to 1974. [1] It contained the parish of Queenborough in Sheppey. It was created on 1 April 1968 by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Queenborough with Sheerness Urban District and Sheppey Rural District, and occupied the entire Isle of Sheppey.
Queenborough railway station is on the Sheerness Line, on the Isle of Sheppey in northern Kent, and serves the town of Queenborough. It is 49 miles 22 chains (79.3 km) down the line from London Victoria .
Queenborough Pier station was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) c.1863. Initially, it served freight traffic. [1] In 1876, the station was rebuilt and the pier was extended, opening to passengers on 15 May. The Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (SMZ) operated a service from Queenborough to Vlissingen, Netherlands.
The following former districts (or parts of) are unparished: Tunbridge Wells Municipal Borough, Tonbridge Urban District, Margate Municipal Borough, Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District, Queenborough-in-Sheppey, Municipal Borough of Rochester, Municipal Borough of Gillingham, Municipal Borough of Chatham, Maidstone Municipal Borough ...