Westgate-on-Sea is a village of four thousand people approximately 21/2 miles from Margate. Westgate main shopping area is accessible by wheelchair, three hundred yards from Ocean Swell and includes: doctors surgery, dentists, optician, post office, chemists, news agents, convenience stores, cafés, cinema, pubs, betting shop etc. The public gardens are opposite Ocean Swell and the beach area and cafés are also accessible by wheel chair.

Westgate-on-Sea has good bus and train links throughout Thanet, available from the main shopping area. The trains include main line links to London. Ocean Swell also has a minibus, specially adapted to accept wheelchairs for use by residents.

If you’re coming to visit us, when heading East from Canterbury past the Canterbury villages, simply follow the A28 all the way past St. Nicholas-at-Wade and continue onto Canterbury Road through Birchington-on-Sea and into Westgate-on-Sea.