Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and also civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet city government area and also borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have actually stayed a prominent vacationer attraction given that the town's growth in the 1860s from a little farming neighborhood. The town is significant for when being the area of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which safeguarded the Thames Estuary seaside towns during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Locals have actually included the 19th-century doctor Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known pictures while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke attended the community's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the community.
