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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 730 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUEENBOROUGH , a municipal See also:

borough in the See also:Faversham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, in the Isle of See also:Sheppey, See also:close to the junction of the Swale and See also:Medway, 2 M. 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 See also:establishment by the railway See also:company of a See also: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 See also:copperas factory in England was established at Queenborough in 1579, by See also:Matthias See also:Falconer, of See also:Brabant. In 1890 See also:Portland See also:cement See also:works were built, and there is a large See also:trade in See also:timber. The town is governed by a See also: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 See also: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 See also:title of the mayor, jurats, bailiffs and burgesses of Queenborough.

The castle never had any military See also:

history, and having been seized by See also: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 See also:chief See also:part of the See also: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 See also:franchise by the Reform See also:Act of 1832.

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