Some place name changes, alternative spellings, similar areas and their meanings.
Barton’s Point:
Origins: Believed to be named after ‘old Jesse Barton’, a shepherd and milkman who lived in a solitary cottage near the site of the Ship on Shore.
Blue Town:
Originally this would have been Sheerness.
Origin: So named because most of the original inhabitants worked in the naval dockyard, and painted their houses with blue paint misappropriated from admiralty stores.
Capel Fleet:
Alternative spellings: Cable Fleet, Cable Creek
Cheyney Rock:
Alternative spellings: Cheney Rock, Cheyne Rock
Origins: Believed to be named by, or after Sir William Cheyne.
Marine Parade, Sheerness:
Used to be called Cheyney Rock Road
Isle of Sheppey:
Insula Ovinium, Sceapige (meaning: island of sheep)
Minster:
Menstre
The Broadway (Sheerness):
Previously: Edward Street
Origins: Originally called Edward Street because the majority of the buildings were designed by Sir Edward Banks.
Old Hook:
Hoke
Mile Town:
Previously: Banks Town
Origins: The names derives from the fact that’s situated approximately 1 mile from Bluetown.
Milton:
Middletun
Minster:
Menstre
Queenborough:
Previously: Bynnee
Alternative spellings: Quynborow, Quinborough
Richmond Street:
Previously: Charles Street
Scrapsgate:
Scrap’s Gate, Scap Gate, Scrape Hope Marsh
Origins: Believed to be named after a gate at this point.
Sheerness:
Shirenasse
Windmill Creek:
Watermill Creek
Straw Creake
Crog Dick (Crog Diep, Crog Deep, Crogdeep, Croggdeepe, Crockdeepe, Crog Creek, Crey Deep)
Origins: Named after the windmill that existed midpoint along the creek.