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 city government district as well as surrounds the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy beaches have stayed a prominent visitor attraction given that the community's development in the 1860s from a tiny farming area. The community is notable 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 during World War I. The town is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have consisted of the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known photos while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in 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 in the community.