Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside community 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 district as well as surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have remained a prominent traveler destination since the community's growth in the 1860s from a tiny farming neighborhood. The community is notable for when being the place of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary seaside communities during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have consisted of the 19th-century cosmetic surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson as well as previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while staying in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke participated in the community's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, as well as Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the town.
