Queenborough
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Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Queenborough Creek.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Creek
- UK place.official_name
- Queenborough
- UK place.population
- 3,407
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.shire_district
- Swale
- UK place.shire_county
- Kent
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey
- UK place.post_town
- QUEENBOROUGH
- UK place.postcode_district
- ME11
- UK place.postcode_area
- ME
- UK place.dial_code
- 01795
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ908724
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- market town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Swale
- Population
- 3407
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Queenborough Creek.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01795
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- ME11
- OS grid reference
- TQ908724
- Commons category
- Queenborough
- P8168
- Baleendah
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Saxon
- Medieval and Tudor
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century to date
- Government
- Demography
- Economy
- Media
- Transport links
- Rail
- Sailing
- See also
- References
- External links
Queenborough is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in South East England.
Queenborough is 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queenborough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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