South East England
Kent
Swale District

Sheerness

Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the on the north-west corner of the in north , England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of which has a population of 16,738.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sheerness Coronation Memorial Clock and Sheerness-on-Sea railway station.

Clock
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Railway station
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is on the Sheerness Line in north , England, and serves the town of Sheerness. It is 51 miles 19 chains down the line from . Train services are provided by Southeastern.

Windmill
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or Ride's Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill just off the High Street in Sheerness, , England, that was demolished in 1924, leaving the brick base standing. It now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blue Town and Halfway Houses.

Suburb
is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the in . It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from to Sheerness.

Village
Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the in the Swale borough of in . 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.

Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the in the Borough of Swale in , England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of . is situated 2½ miles south of Sheerness.

Sheerness

Latitude
51.43982° or 51° 26′ 23″ north
Longitude
0.76204° or 0° 45′ 43″ east
Population
11,700
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SHS
Open location code
9F32CQQ6+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21318568
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638081
Wiki­data ID
Q1003196
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Sheerness” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Sheerness”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şirness”
  • Basque: “Sheerness”
  • Bulgarian: “Шернес”
  • Catalan: “Sheerness”
  • Cebuano: “Sheerness”
  • Chinese: “希爾內斯”
  • Chinese: “施爾尼斯”
  • Chinese: “雪奈斯”
  • Czech: “Sheerness”
  • Dutch: “Sheerness”
  • Esperanto: “Sheerness”
  • Finnish: “Sheerness”
  • French: “Sheerness”
  • German: “Sheerness”
  • Hebrew: “שירנס”
  • Irish: “Sheerness”
  • Italian: “Sheerness”
  • Japanese: “シアネス”
  • Japanese: “シェアネス”
  • Ladin: “Sheerness”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sheerness”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheerness”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sheerness”
  • Norwegian: “Sheerness”
  • Persian: “شیرنس”
  • Polish: “Sheerness”
  • Romanian: “Sheerness”
  • Russian: “Ширнес”
  • Russian: “Ширнесc”
  • Russian: “Ширнесс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sheerness”
  • Slovenian: “Sheerness”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیرنس”
  • Spanish: “Sheerness”
  • Swedish: “Sheerness”
  • Turkish: “Sheerness”
  • Ukrainian: “Ширнесс”
  • Volapük: “Sheerness”
  • Welsh: “Sheerness”
  • Western Frisian: “Sheerness”

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