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 local government area and surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have actually stayed a preferred tourist destination considering that the town's development in the 1860s from a little farming community. The community is notable for when being the area of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary seaside towns throughout World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Residents have actually included the 19th-century specialist Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted numerous of his best-known images while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke attended the community'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.