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Welcome sign. Sheppey is separated from the mainland by a channel called the Swale.In concert with the Wantsum Channel that once separated the Isle of Thanet from mainland Britain to the east (before it silted over in the late Middle Ages), and Yantlet Creek at the Isle of Grain to the west, it was occasionally used in ancient times by ships navigating to and from ports such as Chatham and ...
Two adjoining bridges across The Swale link the Isle of Sheppey to the mainland: Kingsferry Bridge and the Sheppey Crossing. In 2022, the council implemented a low-emission car club in the town of Faversham, [22] in partnership with car sharing company Hiyacar. After a successful first year, the council expanded the Swale Car Club offering to ...
The Blue Town Anchor. Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from Queenborough to Sheerness. It sits just outside the dockyard wall which marks the boundary of Sheerness proper and today is largely industrial in nature.
Sheppey College, in Sheerness, is a branch of Canterbury College that provides a range of further education courses. [68] On 1 September 2009, Cheyne Middle school and Minster College merged to become The Isle of Sheppey Academy (now Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey). Danley Middle school closed and St George's Middle School changed into a primary ...
The A249 begins close to Maidstone town centre, heading eastwards from the southbound A229 Lower Stone Street along first Mote Road and then along Wat Tyler Way.Due to Maidstone's one-way system, the westbound carriageway extends for a short way along Knightrider Street (towards the Archbishop's Palace, Maidstone) but then ends where it meets the northbound carriageway of the A229.
It is immediately adjacent to the A249 road which is on a flyover above the station before it crosses The Swale on the Sheppey Crossing. The station is named after The Swale, the channel which separates the Isle of Sheppey from the mainland and connects with the River Medway to the west and Thames Estuary to the west. North of the station, the ...
Halfway Houses is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Swale borough of Kent in England. [1] It derives its name from the pub in the village centre, with the same name, which was so named because it is halfway between Minster and Sheerness, before the coastal road was built along the north coast connecting Minster and Sheerness.
Services on the Sheppey Light Railway ceased as of 4 December 1950. [13] Until the opening of Swale Halt in 1922, Queenborough was the only intermediate station on the Sheerness Line. [14] [15] The imposing two-storey station building has a strong Victorian character with its high-pitched gables and round-headed sash windows. [14]