Route planner Maps Map of Westgate-on-Sea. Add to favourites. Renting a car, an attractive proposition for the holidays Renting a car Renting a car can be financially advantageous.
Check out our car rental service and all its many benefits. Monthly Report Keep a grip on your motoring budget Tips and good deals to cut your motoring budget. ViaMichelin and you ViaMichelin traffic updates Rich, accurate ViaMichelin traffic updates offer you extensive geographic coverage and real-time information bulletins. Many of the large houses have been demolished and replaced by flats. Empty spaces including former gardens have been developed and there has been a lot of in-filling.
Town houses and accommodation over shops have been converted for multiple occupancy. In the Westgate Heritage Centre collection there are nearly 50 A4 files of information about the history of Westgate-on-Sea. Sources are given for all material used so that anyone interested in following up some aspect can do so. Accept and Continue Cookies on this site This site uses cookies. For more information, please see our privacy policy. Westgate-on-Sea Town Council. None of these remain today.
Modern flats and town houses have replaced them. A Coastguard Station and 8 coastguard cottages were built by the Admiralty at the bay in The coastguards left Westgate-on-Sea in These cottages were then bought by Sir William Ingram and renamed The Nests, each one being called after a bird.
Two villas, later to be upgraded to the Beach House Hotel were built at the bay in They still exist as part of Beach Houses — the two nearest to Margate. The Nottingham Castle Hotel was built at the bay. Plan of the proposed Estate was drawn up by the Estate architect, Charles Beazley, large scale copy in the Heritage Centre Land sales were held regularly for those who wished to build their own private houses to plans approved by the Estate to buy freehold.
Special trains ran from Victoria London on the days of the sales. Despite the population recorded in being a mere , there were 50 shops occupied by Hotels and guest houses line the seafront and the high street has a good range of local shops and services. The town has two local churches; the parish church of St James, built in and the Church of St Saviour, designed by architect C.
Beazley in That year the area had a slight earthquake which caused the church bells to ring wildly! It was actually used as sleeping quarters for members of the Royal West King's Regiment during World War I and was later converted into a theatre. The Swiss-Gothic building in the centre of town was intended to be the town hall in , but instead it became the Carlton Cinema which has three screens. St Mildred's Bay is the larger of the two and has beach huts, chairs and watersports equipment for hire.
Nearby there are public tennis courts and a putting green. West Bay has some rock pools which provide hours of fun for children. Golfers will appreciate the hole, 4,yard Westgate and Birchington Golf Course which has great sea views from its clifftop position. The Cricket Club hosts several competitive matches during the summer and Lymington Road Park has a skateboard park for youngsters.
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