Queenborough-in-Sheppey was a

municipal borough Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in S ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England from 1968 to 1974. It was created by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Queenborough with

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and Sheppey Rural District, and occupied the entire

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. It incorporated the following parishes: *

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* Harty *

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* Minster in Sheppey *

Queenborough 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 R ...

* Sheerness * Warden In 1974 the council was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and the area now forms part of the Swale district. Queenborough and various parishes in the island now have independent parish and town councils again.

Mayors

* 1968-69 A.H.R. Copland * 1969-70 B.E.G. Bigg * 1970-71 B.E.G. Bigg * 1970-71 H.G. Harris * 1971-72 W.G. Baxter * 1972-73 R. D. Sharrock * 1973-74 R. D. Sharrock

Honorary Freemen of the Borough

* 1971 Dr Matthew De Lacey OBE TD * 1973 Reginald James Davie JP

References

Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 History of Kent Municipal boroughs of England Isle of Sheppey {{Kent-geo-stub