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 area and also surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy beaches have actually remained a preferred tourist attraction since the community's development in the 1860s from a small farming neighborhood. The community is notable for once being the place of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which protected the Thames Estuary coastal communities during World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have consisted of the 19th-century surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and also previous Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson repainted numerous of his best-known pictures 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 few years of his education and learning in the community.