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 city government area and surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have actually stayed a popular traveler attraction because the town's development in the 1860s from a tiny farming area. The community is noteworthy for as soon as being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The town is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Locals have actually consisted of the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and also previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known photos while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke attended the community's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the community.