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 local government area and also surrounds the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy coastlines have actually continued to be a prominent traveler attraction given that the town's advancement in the 1860s from a small farming community. The community is notable for as soon as being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which protected the Thames Estuary seaside communities during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have actually 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 living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke attended the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and also Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education and learning in the town.