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New Road, SHEERNESS, ME12 3PT

On Worcester Close.

The pub sign is still up, but the building is undergoing major refurbishment. Whether the place will re-open as a pub I can't say - but anyone with a thirst has a choice of two pubs just a minute's walk away.

With Southlees Marshes faintly seen in the distance

Planning permission has been granted by Swale Borough Council under application number SW/13/1038 for a “dropped kerb and driveway with permeable surfacing”.

The Sheppey Light Railway ran from Queenborough to Leysdown-on-Sea. It was built to the designs of the renowned light railway engineer, Colonel Fred Holman Stephens, and was opened in 1901. Traffic was never busy on the line and it was taken over by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1905, finally closing in 1950. The railway would have crossed over Scocles Road here, but not quite at right angles to it, at about where the cones are on the right. Image was just to the right. A house has now been built on the route of the railway to the left of the old crossing here but its site boundaries match the old boundary of the railway, so are not perpendicular to the road.

Minster Abbey is named after a Saxon nunnery here which was founded in 664AD and sacked by the Danes in 835. This was re-established about 1130, when the present church was built, incorporating and still showing parts of its Saxon predecessor. It is located on the highest point of the Isle of Sheppey and gives superb views to the south across the island and beyond The Swale to the mainland. A full description of the Abbey can be found at http://www.minsterabbey.org.uk/3.html This view is from High Street, just to the south of the churchyard. The hills on the horizon are on the mainland.

View NNE on Scocles Road, towards Minster-on-Sea: ex-SE&CR Sheppey (Queenborough - Leysdown) Light Railway, all closed 4/12/50.

The Sheppey Light Railway ran from Queenborough to Leysdown-on-Sea. It was built to the designs of the renowned light railway engineer, Colonel Fred Holman Stephens, and was opened in 1901. Traffic was never busy on the line and it was taken over by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1905, finally closing in 1950. The former Minster on Sea station would have been about where the tree is beyond the double power poles. Looking at old maps it is easy to see why the railway failed to thrive. When it was built the nearest house was over 500 metres away up the hill in Minster.

Minster Abbey is named after a Saxon nunnery here which was founded in 664AD and sacked by the Danes in 835. This was re-established about 1130, when the present church was built, incorporating and still showing parts of its Saxon predecessor. It is located on the highest point of the Isle of Sheppey and gives superb views to the south across the island and beyond The Swale to the mainland. A full description of the Abbey can be found at http://www.minsterabbey.org.uk/3.html This view is from High Street, just to the south of the churchyard. The hills on the horizon are on the mainland. The building on the right hand side is the edge of the former Fultons Newsagents - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4853873