Editing Reculver (section)

===Toponymy===
The earliest recorded form of the name, ''Regulbium'', is in [[Latin]] and dates from the early 5th century or before, but it had its origin in a [[Common Brittonic]] word meaning "at the promontory" or "great headland". In [[Old English]] this became corrupted to ''Raculf'', sometimes given as ''Raculfceastre'', giving rise to the modern "Reculver".<ref>{{harvnb|Ekwall|1960|page=383}}; {{harvnb|Mills|1998|page=285}}; {{harvnb|Glover|1976|page=155}}; {{harvnb|Jessup|1936|page=190}}.</ref>{{refn|"Many more [Old English] forms are on record."{{sfn|Ekwall|1960|p=383}}|group=Fn}} The form "Raculfceastre" includes the Old English place-name element "[[Chester (placename element)|ceaster]]", which frequently relates to "a [Roman] city or walled town".{{sfn|Ekwall|1960|pp=xxvii, 92}}