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 local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy coastlines have actually continued to be a popular vacationer destination because the community's advancement in the 1860s from a tiny farming neighborhood. The town is notable for as soon as being the place of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary seaside communities during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Residents have 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 pictures while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke attended the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest few years of his education in the community.
