Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside community and also civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet local government district and surrounds the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have actually remained a prominent tourist destination given that the town's growth in the 1860s from a tiny farming community. The community is remarkable for as soon as being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The community is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Residents have actually consisted of the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted numerous of his best-known images while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the community's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the town.
