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 also surrounds the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have actually remained a preferred traveler destination considering that the town's advancement in the 1860s from a little 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 safeguarded the Thames Estuary seaside communities throughout World War I. The community is the topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Locals have included the 19th-century cosmetic surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the community's Streete Preparatory School in the very early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest few years of his education in the community.
