30 Jun
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Westgate-on-Sea - CT8
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Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town 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 district as well as borders the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have remained a preferred visitor destination considering that the community's development in the 1860s from a small farming area. The community 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 towns during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have actually included the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson as well as former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known images while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke went to 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 in the town.
