Reculver, Blean, Canterbury with Swale

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.



St Mary, Reculver (in ruins) - in November 2013

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Melvilles 1858 Directory of Kent.

RECULVER is a parish, and formerly a market town, three miles and a half N.E. from Herne, three miles east from Herne Bay, and 11 miles N.E. from Canterbury, Its population is 273. Broomfield and Hunter's Fostal are one mile S.W.; Oxenden Corner is half a mile south.

Letters received through Chislett. The nearest Money Order Office is at Herne.

John Wacher, Esq.,Reculver Villa.

TRADERS.

Bing, Henry, farmer
Collard, Robert, farmer
Collard, Sidney, farmer
Homens, John, King Ethelbert
Stevenshire, Mrs.Elizabeth, farmer