Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside community as well as civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet local government district as well as borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have stayed a preferred tourist destination because the community's growth in the 1860s from a small farming community. The community is noteworthy for when being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The town is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have consisted of the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson as well as previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known photos while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest few years of his education and learning in the town.
