Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Queenborough. You may be able to find further references to Queenborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Queenborough small town and parish Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Queenborough within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone 3
William Camden Kent 1
Paul Hentzner Departure: Canterbury and Dover 1
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Sheerness 10 2
Iwade 0 2
Minster in Sheppey 2 2
the Isle of Grain 0 2
Lower Halstow 0 3
Upchurch 0 2
Elmley 0 2
Milton Regis 2 3
Bobbing 0 2
Stoke 0 5
Sheppey 0 2
Murston 0 2
Key Street 0 2
Newington 0 2
Eastchurch 0 2
Tonge 0 2
Allhallows 0 3
Sittingbourne 11 3
Borden 0 2
Bapchild 0 2