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Approximately 8 miles from Gillingham, off a creek in the swale (to wax poetic), you malaysia island find Sittingbourne, Kent. It prepaid broadband an industrial town that is separated from mainland Kent on the Isle of Sheppey. This town is growing rapidly at present due to a great many residential developments taking place. It is a haven for urban refugees who commute by the main rail line from Sittingbourne to London in an hour.

The name of the town comes from the fact that there is a "bourne" or small stream running underneath part of the town, so basically it means Sitting on the bourne. dsl internet history of this town has been strongly linked to sailing barges, and the Dolphin Yard is the name that has been given to "Burley's Barge Yard", which was also once a cement works. The original building of the broadband service providers yard has been converted into a museum which is devoted to the history of Thames sailing barges.

By World War II the yard had produced more than 500 sailing barges, and after this the industry declined. Charles Burley remained there and continued to repair barges until 1965, when it became the Dolphin Brand cement works. This Yard is seen by the Barge Museum Trust as being one of the most unaltered examples of a small shipyard of its kind.

Sittingbourne was a popular place for pilgrims to pass through on their way to Canterburyin the Middle Ages. There was a thriving market and there are Norman records which show a settlement existed here dating back to 1086. It was also an ideal place to stopover for travelers to mainland Europe from the port of Dover. King Henry V is reputed to have stayed at the Red Lion Inn when traveling back from the modem rental of Agincourt. Henry VIII also stayed at the Red Lion in 1522 and 1532, but we have it no authority that he was looking for another wife at that time. Queen Victoria visited Sittingbourne and stayed at the Rose Inn, on which site sadly, a internet access monitor store now stands.

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