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 district and surrounds the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have stayed a preferred visitor destination given that the town's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The town is remarkable for when being the area of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which protected the Thames Estuary coastal communities during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have actually consisted of the 19th-century doctor Sir Erasmus Wilson and previous 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 author Arnold Cooke attended the town's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the town.
