Sheerness

Worth seeing in and around Sheerness

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Queenborough Castle

   Queenborough Castle, also known as Sheppey Castle, is a 14th-century castle, the remnants of which are in the town of Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent in England. The castle and the associated planned town were built on the orders of King Edward III from 1361 and named in honour his wife, Queen Philippa.

   2.9 km · concentric castle in Queenborough, Swale, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Grain Fort

   Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France.

   3.3 km · fort at the mouth of the Medway, Kent, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Garrison Point Fort

   Garrison Point Fort is a former artillery fort situated at the end of the Garrison Point peninsula at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Built in the 1860s in response to concerns about a possible French invasion, it was the last in a series of artillery batteries that had existed on the site since the mid-16th century.

   1.3 km · fort in Sheerness, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Shed No. 78

   Shed Number 78, Sheerness Dockyard is a disused industrial building at Sheerness Dockyard, on the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent. The building was constructed at the Royal Navy Dockyard in Sheerness in 1856–60, as a store for small boats and a warehouse.

   1.1 km · building in Sheerness, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Grain Tower

   Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type.

   2.3 km · tower in Isle of Grain, Medway, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Sheppey Crossing

   The Sheppey Crossing is a bridge which carries the A249 road across the Swale, linking the Isle of Sheppey with the mainland of Kent. The four-lane crossing measures 21.5 m in width, at a height of 35 m over the water.

   5.7 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Grain Power Stations

   Grain Power Station is a 1,275 megawatts operational CCGT power station in Kent, England, owned by Uniper. It was also the name of an oil-fired, now demolished, 1,320 MW power station in operation from 1979 to 2012.

   3.6 km · power station site on the Isle of Grain, Kent, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Town Hall

   Queenborough Guildhall is a former municipal building in the High Street in Queenborough, Kent, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II listed building.

   2.9 km · town hall in Queenborough, Swale, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sheerness

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 61 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 73 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 85 km

Stations

Queenborough railway station, 2.9 km · Sheerness-on-Sea railway station, 100 m · Swale railway station, 5.8 km · Grain Crossing Halt railway station, 5.4 km · London Thamesport, 5 km

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  95 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £13–18
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sheerness. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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