RECULVER, a parish in the hundred of BLEANGATE, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 10 miles (N. E. by N.) from Canterbury, containing 266 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Hoath annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £9. 12. 3. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome structure in the early style of English architecture, with two towers at the west end, each surmonted by a spire; it has received considerable damage from encroachments of the sea: it was founded some time in the seventh century, together with a monastery for Black canons, by one Basse, upon land granted to him by Egbert, King of Kent; in 949, King Eadred annexed it to Christ Church in Canterbury; yet it seems to have been afterwards of some note, being under the government of a dean, in 1030. There are considerable remains of Regulbium, a Roman fort, within the walls of which the royal palace of Ethelbert and the monastery before mentioned were erected. Roman coins, tesselated pavements, cellars, cisterns, fibula, and a variety of trinkets, with some British and Saxon coins, have been discovered. By the fall of the cliff at different times, lumps of metal have been met with, seeming to indicate the destruction of the place by fire.