Westgate on Sea
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England.
Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have remained a popular tourist attraction since the town's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The town had a population of 7,517 at the 2021 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Westgate on Sea
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Shell Grotto
The Shell Grotto, sometimes called the Shell Temple, is an ornate underground shell grotto in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, England. The grotto, which has a passageway and main room, was dug out from chalk, a soft limestone common in the region.
3.6 km · an ornate subterranean passageway in Margate, Kent, UK. Grade I listed building · Wikipedia - 02Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, who went to school there, and visited throughout his life.
3.2 km · art gallery in Kent, England · Wikipedia - 03Dreamland Margate
Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair located in Margate, Kent, England. The site of the park was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park's Grade II* listed Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster was opened.
2.7 km · Seaside amusement park in Margate, England · Wikipedia - 04Arlington House, Margate
Arlington House is an 18-storey residential apartment and commercial block in the Brutalist style on the seafront of Margate, Kent, England, next to Margate railway station and Dreamland Margate. It was developed by Bernard Sunley and designed by Russel Diplock, and is known for every apartment having a sea view.
2.6 km · building in Kent, England · Wikipedia - 05Margate Lighthouse
Margate Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the end of Margate harbour arm in Kent.
3 km · lighthouse in Margate, Kent, England · Wikipedia - 06Thanet Coast
Thanet Coast is an 816.9-hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Whitstable and Ramsgate in Kent. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and overlaps two Special Area of Conservations.
4.1 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent · Wikipedia - 07Royal Sea Bathing Hospital
The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital in Margate, Kent, England, was founded in 1791 by Dr John Coakley Lettsom, a Quaker physician and philanthropist, for the treatment of scrofula. The hospital was one of the earliest—if not the earliest—specialist orthopaedic hospital in the UK, and pioneered the use of open-air treatment for patients with non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
2 km · building in Thanet, Margate, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Westwood Cross
Westwood Cross is an open, pedestrianised shopping centre located at Westwood, Kent, England. It opened in 2005, and since 2008 has incorporated a casino, bowling alley cinema and bingo hall.
4.8 km · shopping mall in Westwood, Kent · Wikipedia - 09Q124736378
The Margate Caves are a tourist attraction in Margate. The caves were originally dug as a chalk mine in the area between Margate and Cliftonville.
3.5 km · cave in Margate · Wikipedia - 10Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex House and Gardens
The Powell-Cotton Museum is situated in Quex Park in Birchington and houses the diverse personal collections of hunter and explorer Percy Powell-Cotton. The museum also contains the collections of Powell-Cotton's two daughters, Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton, who shared their father's passion for collecting.
2.3 km · museum in Birchington, Kent, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Westgate on Sea
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 95 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 109 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 109 km
- Stations
- Manston Airport, 4.4 km · Westgate-on-Sea railway station, 0 m · Margate railway station, 2.4 km · Birchington-on-Sea railway station, 2.6 km · Thanet Parkway railway station, 5.9 km
- London → Westgate on Sea102 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–14
- London, Essex → Westgate on Sea102 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Westgate on Sea133 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–22
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Westgate on Sea. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBroadstairs is 2 miles from the channel port of Ramsgate with ferries from Ostend in Belgium (for car passengers/coaches only though - no foot passengers).
From Wikivoyage: Broadstairs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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