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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: A28 road, Adisham, Adisham railway station, Bekesbourne, Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne, Bekesbourne railway station, Bishopsbourne Paddock, Bridge, Kent, Calcott, Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Chartham, Chartham railway station, Chestfield & Swalecliffe railway station, CSR 97.4FM, CT postcode area, Denge Wood, District of Canterbury Credit Union, Eddington, Kent, Hackington, Harbledown, Herne, Kent, Herne and Broomfield, Herne Common, Hersden, Highstead, Hoath, Howletts Wild Animal Park, Ickham, Invicta (locomotive), Kent Business School, Kent County Cricket Club, Kingston, Kent, KMFM Canterbury, Littlebourne, Little Stour, Lounge On The Farm, Lower Hardres, Lydden Hill Race Circuit, Marshside, Kent, Petham, Pilgrims' Way, Radfall, Reculver, River Stour, Kent, Saxon Shore Way, Stour Valley Walk, Sturry, Sturry railway station, Thanington Without, Upper Harbledown, Upper Hardres, Waltham, Kent, Westbere, Whitehall Dyke, Wildwood Discovery Park, Womenswold. Excerpt: Reculver is a village and coastal resort about 3 miles (5 km) east of Herne Bay in south-east England, in a ward of the same name, in the City of Canterbury district of Kent. It is about 30 miles (48 km) east by north of the county town of Maidstone, and about 58 miles (93 km) east by south from London. Reculver once occupied a strategic location at the north-western end of the Wantsum Channel, between the Isle of Thanet and the Kent mainland. This led the Romans to build a small fort there at the time of their conquest of Britain in 43 AD, and, starting late in the 2nd century, they built a larger fort, or "castrum," called Regulbium, which later was part of the chain of Saxon Shore forts. The military connection resumed in the Second World War, when Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs were tested in the sea off Reculver. After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, Reculver became a landed estate of the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent. The site of the Roman fort was given over for the establishment of a monastery dedicated to St Mary in 669 AD, and King Eadberht II of Kent was buried there in the 760s. During the Middle Ages Reculver was a thriving township with a weekly market and a yearly fair, and it was a member of the Cinque Port of Sandwich. The twin spires of the church became a landmark for mariners known as the "Twin Sisters," supposedly after daughters of Geoffrey St Clare, and the 19th century facade of St John's Cathedral in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, is a copy of that at Reculver. Reculver declined as the Wantsum Channel silted up, and coastal erosion claimed many buildings constructed on the soft sandy cliffs. The village was largely abandoned in the late 18th century, and most of the church was demolished in the early 19th century. Protecting the ruins and the rest of Reculver from erosion is an ongoing challenge. The 20th century saw a revival as a tourism industry developed and there are now three caravan parks. The census of 2001
