Sheerness
About Sheerness
Sheerness is a city beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west nook of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 12,000 it's miles the biggest metropolis at the island. Sheerness commenced as a fort built in the sixteenth century to shield the River Medway from naval invasion. In 1665 plans have been first laid through the Navy Board for Sheerness Dockyard, a facility where warships might be provisioned and repaired. The website changed into favoured by using Samuel Pepys, then Clerk of the Acts of the navy, for shipbuilding over Chatham inland.
After the raid at the Medway in 1667, the older fortification turned into bolstered; in 1669 a Royal Navy dockyard was established inside the town, wherein warships had been stocked and repaired till its closure in 1960. Beginning with the development of a pier and a promenade in the nineteenth century, Sheerness acquired the delivered attractions of a beach motel. Industry keeps its crucial vicinity inside the town and the Port of Sheerness is one of the United Kingdom's main car and sparkling produce importers. The metropolis is the website of one of the UK's first co-operative societies and additionally of the world's first multi-storey buildings with a inflexible metal frame.
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