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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WESTGATE ON SEA LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	MARGATE MB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WESTGATE ON SEA":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH	Somerset	sea; the Kennet and Avon canal goes from it into the navigation of the Thames; and the Great Western rail way, in its main line, its branches, and its connexions, gives it communication with all parts of the kingdom. History. —The city owes its origin and its name to famous thermal springs. An old tradition says that the springs were discovered, and the city founded, by Bladud, son of Lud, king of Britain, about the year 863 b. c.; and a statue of Bladud, with an inscription embodying the tradition, was erected in the Pump-room so late	Imperial
  Burn	Norfolk	Burn , stream, W. Norfolk, flowing N. to the sea 3 miles NE. of Burnham-Westgate; 6 miles long.	Bartholomew
  BURNHAM-OVERY	Norfolk	Westgate r. station, and 5 W of Wells. Post Town, Burnham, under Lynn. Acres, 2,548; of which 250 are water. Real property, £4,479. Pop., 650. Houses, 157. The property is divided among a few. The rivulet Burn goes here into the sea	Imperial
  BURN (The)	Norfolk	BURN (The) , a stream of Norfolk; running 6 miles northward to the sea, 3 miles NNE of Burnham-Westgate.	Imperial
  DOCKING	Norfolk	Sea, Hunstanton, Great Ringstead, Heacham, and Sedgeford; and the sub-district of Burnham, containing the parishes of Burnham-Westgate, Burnham	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  Holme next the Sea	Norfolk	next the Sea , coast par. and vil., W. Norfolk, 7½ miles NW. of Burnham Westgate, 2512 ac., pop. 304.	Bartholomew
  HOLME-NEXT-THE-SEA	Norfolk	SEA , a village and a parish in Docking district, Norfolk. The village stands on the coast, 2½ miles NE of Hunstanton r. station, and 8¼ W by N of Burnham-Westgate	Imperial
  LEWES	Sussex	LEWES , a town, several parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a rape in Sussex. The town stands on the	Imperial
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	LINCOLN , a city and a district in Lincolnshire, and a diocese partly also in Notts. The city stands on Ermine	Imperial
  LOUTH	Lincolnshire	LOUTH , a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Lincolnshire. The town stands on the river Ludd	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	Westgate-street, Northumberland-street, and Northumberland-place; a hat-manufactory, employing upwards of250 persons, is in Wellington-place. There are alsolinen-yarn factories, paper-mills, roperies, paint and colour manufactories, glue and varnish manufactories, coal-tar and lamp-black works, linseed oil-mills, bone-mills, saw-mills, seed-crushing mills, corn mills, and establishments of other kinds indicated by our statistics of thepeople's occupations. The commerce of the Tyne is distributed among the ports of Newcastle, South Shields, and North Shields; and less than one-third of the shipping hails from Newcastle. The vessels belonging to this port	Imperial
  Westgate	Kent	Westgate , eccl. dist., Margate par., Kent, pop. 1670. See WESTGATE ON SEA.	Bartholomew
  Westgate on Sea	Kent	Westgate on Sea , watering-place with ry. sta., Margate par., Kent, 2 miles SW. of Margate by rail, pop. 1670; P.O., T.O., Bank	Bartholomew

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