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 also borders the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have continued to be a preferred vacationer attraction given that the community's growth in the 1860s from a small farming neighborhood. The town is significant for when being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal communities throughout World War I. The community is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have consisted of the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted numerous of his best-known pictures while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke attended the community's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the community.
