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 local government area and surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy beaches have continued to be a prominent visitor destination given that the community's development in the 1860s from a small farming neighborhood. The town is significant for once being the place 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 town is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have included the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson as well as former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known pictures while staying in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the town's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest couple of years of his education in the town.