RECULVERS, (Kent) joins to the sea at the mouth of the r. Genlad, 8 m. N. E. from Canterbury, and has a Ch. which was
collegiate with two pyramidal spires, notable sea-marks for ships bet. the Isle of Shepey and the North-Foreland. It is
said Severus emperor of Rome, about the year 205, built a castle at this place, which he fortified against the Britons;
that Ethelbert, one of the Ks. of Kent, erected a palace here for himself, and his successors, the com. of which is
visible still from the ruins of an old wall; and that about 200 years after, a mon. was erected here, which, anno 949, K.
Eadred gave with the manor to Christchurch, Canterbury. Here is a Fair Sept. 1, and in the R. of Edw. I. it had the grant
of a Mt. long since disused. The dredgers for oysters on this coast, which are reckoned exceeding good, have often met in
the sands with Roman vessels, cisterns, cellars, &c. besides vast numbers of Roman coins, rings, bracelets, &c. which come
from the land by the fall of the cliffs. The sea has got so much of this T. that there are but few houses left, and its
Ch. was in such danger, above 20 years ago, that men were almost continually employed, to make good the walls or banks.