Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside community and civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet local government area and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy beaches have stayed a prominent vacationer destination because the town's growth in the 1860s from a little farming area. The town is remarkable for when being the area of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which safeguarded the Thames Estuary seaside communities during World War I. The town is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have included the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known photos while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke went to the community's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, as well as Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the community.
