Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town as well as 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 vacationer destination since the community's growth in the 1860s from a small 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 protected the Thames Estuary seaside towns during World War I. The community is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have consisted of the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the town's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest few years of his education in the community.
