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 city government district as well as borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have continued to be a preferred vacationer attraction considering that the community's development in the 1860s from a little farming community. The town is significant for once being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which safeguarded the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The community is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Citizens have actually consisted of the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted several of his best-known images while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke went to the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest few years of his education in the town.
