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Towns near Queenborough
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Sheerness
(1 Mile)*
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Port Victoria
(2 Miles)*
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Grain
(2 Miles)*
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Minster
(3 Miles)*
At Minster, the Isle of Sheppey's history is again brought to life at Minster abbey Gatehouse Museum, part of one of Kent's earliest Benedictine nunneries. |
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Isle of Grain
(3 Miles)*
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Iwade
(3 Miles)*
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Elmley
(4 Miles)*
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Lower Halstow
(5 Miles)*
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Milton Regis
(5 Miles)*
Milton Regis, a suburb of Sittingbourne, offers a tourist attraction with a difference. At Milton creek you will find an old sailing barge yard, which still carries out this type of work on a commercial basis. |
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Bobbing
(5 Miles)*
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Key Street
(5 Miles)*
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Eastchurch
(5 Miles)*
Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey was itself once the home of the early pioneers of aviation. Lord Brabazon of Tara, holder of Pilot's Licence No.1, and the late Sir Winston Churchill were both taught to fly at the old Eastchurch aerodrome. |
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Allhallows
(5 Miles)*
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Upchurch
(5 Miles)*
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Sittingbourne
(5 Miles)*
Sittingbourne is a modern day market town, but has very strong links with the sailing barge history in its past, which is still very much in evidence today. |
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