Description: Whitstable Online - english seaside town Whitstable, Kent. Website for Whitstable.
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Whitstable Online is the community web site for the people of Whitstable in Kent. Also provides visitors with information about the quaint, fashionable fishing town.
Whitstable is probably most famous as a fishing port and for the oysters that are still fished here.
Whitstable is a small town with a huge personality. Famous since Roman times for its oysters, it has retained much of its charm and character over the years, and has lured acting greats such as Sir Henry Broadribb Irving, Sir Arthur Pinero, Albert Ward; famous for his part as Fagin in Dicken's Oliver Twist, and the legendary Peter Cushing, to name a few to live here in the past. The town seems to attract artistic types.