Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and also civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet city government district and also borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy coastlines have actually continued to be a preferred tourist destination since the community's growth in the 1860s from a tiny farming neighborhood. The town is noteworthy for when being the place of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which safeguarded the Thames Estuary seaside communities during World War I. The town is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Locals have included the 19th-century cosmetic surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known photos while residing in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke participated in the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, as well as Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench spent the earliest few years of his education and learning in the town.