Margate

51.3891666666671.3875Koordinaten: 51 ° 23 ' N, 1 ° 23 ' E

Margate is an English town on the northern coastline of the Isle of Thanet, Broadstairs and between Herne Bay in Kent. The city has 58 465 inhabitants ( 2001). The Cliffs of their coastline consist of Cretaceous and are known for their fossil finds.

Before Margate Thanet coast, the wind was in 2009 erected farm.

History

Around the year 1254 the city was founded under the name Meregate and known to 1293 as Margate. The name changed several times until the present time. He is said to be derived from a gap in the cliffs behind them ponds.

In the 15th century Margate belonged to the alliance of the Cinque Ports as an outpost of Dover. From the middle of the 18th century, the city developed into one of the leading English seaside resorts. Just like its neighbor Ramsgate it was traditional destination for Londoners, who were attracted by the sandy beaches. The Victorian pier in 1978 was destroyed by a storm.

Just like the other resorts Southend and Brighton Margate was notorious for clashes between Mods and Rockers in the 1960s and between mods and skinheads in the 1980s.

Tourism

As the entire region lives mainly from tourism Margate, favored by the proximity to London. Besides individual traveler come especially during the Christmas holidays and New Year ( English ) coach tours to Margate, in addition, it is also the objective of pupils Courses. In recent years, the influx of tourists, however, has decreased significantly, which Margate has brought in significant economic difficulties.

The city is dominated by a promenade, a small harbor with a tidal jetty, a sandy beach just below the village and B & B hotels and pensions. To the east, Margate goes directly into the district of Cliftonville.

In the 1920s and 1930s found in Margate, as in other British seaside resorts, major chess championships.

Attractions

  • Worth seeing are the large crescents from the 19th century, a number of mansions. A footpath leads over cliffs to Broadstairs, where Charles Dickens 's novel David Copperfield wrote in 1850.
  • Margate has two theaters, which are the Theatre Royal as the second oldest and the Tom Thumb Theatre as the second smallest in England.
  • In the King Street stands on a pedestal of flints a two-story Tudor half-timbered house dating from the 16th century.
  • The Shell Grotto is a probably artificial cave in private hands, the walls were lavishly decorated with ornaments of over 4.6 million shells. Via a staircase down and a 21 m long corridor to get in a round room with internal columns, followed to reach a rectangular room ( altar chamber ) with a height of about 4.6 m and length of 6.1 m. The cave was discovered in 1835 by James Newlove. The origin and age of the cave could not yet be clarified.
  • The Turner Contemporary, designed by the English architect David Chipperfield was opened in April 2011. The namesake William Turner went to Margate to school and visited the city regularly until his death.

Districts

  • Margate
  • Cliftonville
  • Garlinge
  • Palm Bay
  • Westbrook

Twin Cities

  • Idar -Oberstein ( Germany ) since 1981
  • Yalta ( Ukraine ),

Policy

Since 1983 put the Conservatives in the election district of North Thanet and Herne Bay MPs. In the last election in 2010 they reached 52.7 %. The Labour Party scored 21.5%, Liberals 19.4% and the Independents 6.5%.

Since 1857 Margate existed as a separate district ( municipal borough ). In 1974, the city became part of the district of Thanet, Kent. The city consists of the seven electoral districts Margate Central, Cliftonville West, Cliftonville East, West Brook, Garlinge, Dane Valley and Salmestone. There, 17 of the 56 seats of the District Council of Thanet be selected. In the 2007 election the Conservatives won nine seats, the Liberals seven seats and one seat went to the independents.

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Primary schools

  • Palm Bay
  • Drapers Mills
  • Garlinge
  • Cliftonville
  • Holy Trinity and St John's
  • Salmestone
  • St Gregory's Catholic Primary School

Secondary Schools

  • Hard Down Technology College
  • St Anthony's

Private Schools

  • Farrow House
  • Laleham Gap
  • King Ehtelberts
  • Hard down

Secondary schools

  • Chatham House
  • Clarendon House

Economy

The employees of the city are divided into the following employment sectors: 17% in retail, 16% in health and social services, 13% in the craft, 9% in the construction sector, 5% public administration, 6% hotels and restaurants, 2 % financial services, 1% agriculture and 6% other public services.

Unemployment in the city is higher than the national average, which is particularly justified in declining tourism in recent years.

Media

There appear two local newspapers in Margate. The Isle of Thanet gazette and the Thanet Times, belonging to the publisher Northcliffe Media Group. Complimentary newspapers of the city are the Thanet Extra KM Group KOS Media and yourthanet.

Receivable radio stations are the local radio station KMFM Thanet KM Group, Academy FM, as well as the national radio programs of Heart Kent, Gold and BBC Radio Kent radio.

Sons and daughters of the town

Herne Bay, Kent Bed and Breakfast David Watkin (cinematographer) Cockney Hastings Hythe, Kent New Romney Sandwich (Kent) Rye (East Sussex) Winchelsea Deal (Kent) Faversham Folkestone Lydd Tenterden
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