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 as well as surrounds the bigger seaside resort of Margate. Its 2 sandy coastlines have actually continued to be a prominent tourist attraction since the community's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The community is significant for as soon as being the location of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base at St Mildred's Bay, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns throughout World War I. The community is the subject of Sir John Betjeman's rhyme, Westgate-on-Sea. Homeowners have actually included the 19th-century cosmetic surgeon Sir Erasmus Wilson and also former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The musician Sir William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while staying in Westgate-on-Sea. The British author Arnold Cooke participated in the town's Streete Preparatory School in the early 20th century, as well as Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench invested the earliest few years of his education and learning in the community.