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QUEENBOROUGH , a municipal See also: borough in the See also: Faversham See also: parliamentary division of Kent, See also: England, in the Isle of See also: Sheppey, close to the junction of the Swale and See also: Medway, 2 M
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S. of See also: Sheerness on the See also: South-Eastern & See also: Chatham railway
.
Pop
.
(1901) 1544
.
The prosperity of the See also: town has been revived in See also: modern times by the establishment by the railway See also: company of a branch See also: line from See also: Sittingbourne in connexion with a service of See also: mail and passenger steamers to See also: Flushing (See also: Holland), which run twice daily
.
The first copperas factory in England was established at Queenborough in 1579, by
See also: Matthias Falconer, of See also: Brabant
.
In 1890 See also: Portland cement See also: works were built, and there is a large See also: trade in See also: timber
.
The town is governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors
.
See also: Area, 302 acres
.
A fortress, called Sheppey See also: Castle, is said to have existed from an early See also: period for guarding the passage of the Swale See also: river
.
Queenborough Castle was built about 1361 by See also: Edward III., who named the town after See also: Queen Philippa and made it a See also: free borough, with a governing See also: body of a mayor and two bailiffs
.
Charters were granted by subsequent sovereigns down to See also: Charles I., who reincorporated the town under the title of the mayor, jurats, bailiffs and burgesses of Queenborough
.
The castle never had any military See also: history, and having been seized by parliament together with the other royal possessions, and being considered of insufficient importance for repair, was demolished during the See also: Commonwealth
.
The borough subsequently decreased in importance
.
The chief See also: part of the population were employed in the See also: oyster See also: fishery
.
The town was first represented in parliament by two members in 1572; it lost its franchise by the Reform See also: Act of 1832
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