Reculver church , Kent in 1781 From Gentlemen's Magazine , September 1809 Reculver is a summer resort situated about 5 kilometres east of Herne Bay along the North Kent coast and is popular with visitors. Its main features are the ruins of a Roman Fort and a country park which houses an interpretation centre run by the Kent Wildlife Trust. Ruins of a 14th century church on the edge of a cliff form a backdrop to the wide Thames-side marshes and hide the intriguing remains of a Roman fort. Originally called Regulbium, the fort guarded the north end of what were then the broad waters of the Wantsum Channel, which separated the Isle of Thanet from the rest of Kent and along which passed Roman galleys. In Saxon, the place name became raculf.