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 surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy coastlines have actually continued to be a preferred tourist destination considering that the community's development in the 1860s from a small farming area. The town is remarkable for when being the place of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which protected the Thames Estuary coastal communities 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 specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson as well as previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known images 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 spent the earliest few years of his education in the town.
