Seaside town in Kent, England

Westgate-on-Sea

Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish on the north-east coast of Kent, England.

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London → Westgate-on-Sea
102 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–14
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London, Essex → Westgate-on-Sea
102 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–14
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Luton, Luton → Westgate-on-Sea
133 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Westgate-on-Sea, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Westgate-on-Sea has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 95 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.381°, 1.338°

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.

How locals move

Getting around Westgate-on-Sea the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: train_photos (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.