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 city government area as well as surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have actually stayed a preferred traveler destination given that the community's development in the 1860s from a tiny farming neighborhood. The town is notable for as soon as being the area of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which protected the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The town is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have actually included the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known images while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke went to the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the community.
