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 city government district as well as borders the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy beaches have stayed a preferred tourist destination considering that the town's development in the 1860s from a small farming neighborhood. 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 safeguarded the Thames Estuary coastal towns throughout World War I. The town is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Residents have actually consisted of the 19th-century doctor Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted numerous of his best-known pictures while staying in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke went to 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 in the town.