Westgate-on-sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and 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 surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have actually continued to be a prominent vacationer destination since the town's growth in the 1860s from a tiny farming area. The community is noteworthy 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 topic of Sir John Betjeman's poem, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have consisted of the 19th-century doctor Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known pictures while staying in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke participated in the community's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest couple of years of his education in the town.