Editing Reculver (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Reculver in Domesday Book.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|alt=The entry for Reculver in Domesday Book|The [[Domesday Book]] entry for Reculver, given here as "Roculf", in 1086: the entry below it, headed "Nortone", is for {{nowrap|"Herne ...}} under another name".{{sfn|Flight|2010|p=162}}]]
In the 10th-century [[Anglo-Saxon charters|charter]] by which King Eadred gave Reculver to the archbishops of Canterbury, the boundary of the mainland part of the estate was about the same as those for the adjoining parishes of Reculver, Hoath and Herne in the 20th century, and the estate included part of the Isle of Thanet.<ref>{{harvnb|Sawyer|1968|loc=S&nbsp;546}}; {{cite web|url=http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/546.html|title=S 546|author=The Electronic Sawyer|publisher=King's College London|year=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331065536/http://www.esawyer.org.uk/charter/546.html |archive-date=31 March 2014 |url-status=live |access-date=19 May 2014|postscript=;}} {{harvnb|Gough|1992|p=}}; {{harvnb|Kelly|2008|page=73}}; {{harvnb|Flight|2010|page=162}}.</ref>{{refn|References such as "S&nbsp;546" indicate the number given to an [[Anglo-Saxon charters|Anglo-Saxon charter]] in {{harvnb|Sawyer|1968|page=}}. Details, [[Latin]] texts and English translations of charters referenced by Sawyer number in this article can be found through the list at {{cite web|url=http://www.esawyer.org.uk/browse/sawno.html|title=Browsing charters|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website=The Electronic Sawyer|publisher=King's College London|year=2014|access-date=20 April 2014}} A map of the mainland part of the estate is at {{harvnb|Gough|1992|loc=Fig. 10}}.|group=Fn}} In 1086, Domesday Book named Reculver as a hundred, meaning that it was probably the meeting-place for the local [[Hundred (county subdivision)#Hundred courts|hundred court]].<ref>{{harvnb|Williams|Martin|2002|p=8}}; {{harvnb|Anderson|1934|pp=xxvi–xxviii}}.</ref> The hundred included Hoath and Herne, and it may also have included the neighbouring area of Thanet.{{sfn|Flight|2010|p=162}} In 1274–75 the local hundred was much larger: it was then named after Bleangate, in a detached part of [[Chislet]] parish, and was divided into northern and southern halves; it also included part of Thanet.{{sfn|Jones|2007|loc=Bleangate}}{{refn|Bleangate is about {{convert|7.4|mi|km|1}} south-west of Reculver, at OS grid reference {{gbmappingsmall|TR167645}}. In 1274–75 the jury for Bleangate hundred said that half of the hundred was in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other half was in the hands of the [[abbot]] of [[St Augustine's Abbey|St Augustine's]], but that "they [did] not know from what time".{{sfn|Jones|2007|loc=Bleangate}} Bleangate hundred may have been in existence at the time of Domesday Book although not referenced by it, and if so probably included the Domesday hundreds of Chislet, Sturry and Reculver in 1086 as it did in the 13th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Thorn|1992|pp=56{{nowrap|(& n.&nbsp;67),}} 66}}; {{harvnb|Ballard|1920|p=17}}.</ref>|group=Fn}} By 1540 Bleangate hundred no longer included land on Thanet, its members being listed then as [[Sturry]], Chislet, Reculver and Herne for the archaic taxes known as "fifteenths and tenths",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?piece_id=12938&doc_id=1557&doc_ref=E179/124/224 |title=E&nbsp;179/124/224 |author=E&nbsp;179 Database |publisher=The National Archives |date=n.d. |access-date=2 May 2014 |postscript=; }} {{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/taxation-before-1689.htm |title=Taxation before 1689 |at=4.2 Fifteenths and Tenths, 1334–1624 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |publisher=The National Archives |year=2010 |access-date=20 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319064550/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/taxation-before-1689.htm |archive-date=19 March 2012 }}</ref>{{refn|All the members of Bleangate hundred were assessed at the same rate of £12.14s. (£12.70) for the two fifteenths and tenths granted to [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] in 1571 except for Herne, which was assessed at £12.15s (£12.75).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?piece_id=13130&doc_id=1715&doc_ref=E179/126/415|title=E&nbsp;179/126/415|author=E&nbsp;179 Database|publisher=The National Archives|date=n.d.|access-date=2 May 2014|postscript=;}} {{harvnb|Lambarde|1596|p=28}}.</ref> While Sarre on the Isle of Thanet had been included in Bleangate hundred in 1274–75, by 1540 it was in Ringslow hundred, which consisted entirely of places on the Isle of Thanet.<ref>{{harvnb|Jones|2007|loc=Bleangate}}; {{harvnb|Hasted|1800|pp=217–37}}; {{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?piece_id=12938&doc_id=1557&doc_ref=E179/124/224|title=E&nbsp;179/124/224|author=E&nbsp;179 Database|publisher=The National Archives|date=n.d.|access-date=2 May 2014}}</ref>|group=Fn}} and in 1659 they were listed as Chislet, Herne, Hoath, Reculver, [[Stourmouth]], Sturry and [[Westbere]].{{sfn|Kilburne|1659|page=332}} In 1808 the members of the northern half-hundred, or "Bleangate Upper", were listed as Herne, Reculver, Stourmouth and Hoath.<ref>{{cite news |last=Claridge |first=J.F. |date=25 March 1808 |title=Kent|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000235/18080325/020/0002|newspaper=Kentish Gazette|access-date=5 May 2014|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The [[Constable#United Kingdom|constable]] for the northern half-hundred was chosen at the [[court leet]] of the manor of Reculver, which by 1800 was usually held at Herne.<ref>{{harvnb|Harrington|1999|pp=264, 266–7}}; {{harvnb|Hasted|1800|pp=109–25}}</ref>{{refn|The election of a "Constable of the Half Hundred of Bleangate" named Cob as [[Sidesperson|sidesman]] for Reculver church was reported in 1596: he refused this duty on the grounds that he was too busy in his role as constable, and was supported in this claim by a letter from the "Worshipful" Mr [[Peter Manwood]].{{sfn|Hussey|1902|p=44}} In 1835 the [[Manorial court#Court baron|court baron]] was also held at Herne.<ref>{{cite news|last=Plummer|first=S.|title=Manor of Reculver|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000235/18350616/034/0002|date=16 June 1835|newspaper=Kentish Gazette|access-date=5 May 2014|url-access=subscription }}</ref>|group=Fn}}

The parish was represented by two [[tithing]]s&nbsp;– known in Kent as "borghs"<ref>{{harvnb|Baker|1966|p=11(note)}}; {{harvnb|Gough|2014|p=187}}.</ref>&nbsp;– in the [[Hundred Rolls]] of 1274–75 and, 400&nbsp;years later, for the purposes of the [[Hearth tax#Stuart period|Hearth Tax]], levied between 1662 and 1689.<ref>{{harvnb|Jones|2007|loc=Bleangate}}; {{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/notes.asp?slctgrantid=352&action=3|title=Tax grant details (Hearth Tax)|author=E&nbsp;179 Database|publisher=The National Archives|date=n.d.|access-date=20 April 2014}}</ref> In 1274–75 they appear as Reculver borgh and Brookgate borgh;{{sfn|Jones|2007|loc=Bleangate}} in 1663 they appear as Reculver Street borgh and Brookgate borgh, which were recorded under a parish heading for Reculver, together with Hoath borgh;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?piece_id=29684&doc_id=2329&doc_ref=E179/249/33|title=E&nbsp;179/249/33 Part 2 of 10|author=E&nbsp;179 Database|publisher=The National Archives|date=n.d.|access-date=20 April 2014}}</ref> and in 1673 Reculver borgh and Brookgate borgh were recorded under a heading for Herne parish, while Hoath was recorded under its own parish heading.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?piece_id=29726&doc_id=2504&doc_ref=E179/129/746|title=E&nbsp;179/129/746|author=E&nbsp;179 Database|publisher=The National Archives|date=n.d.|access-date=20 April 2014}}</ref> However, borghs in Kent, and tithings generally, were related to the manorial and [[wikt:hundredal|hundredal]] administration of a county, rather than to the ecclesiastical parishes in which they lay.{{sfn|Harrington|2000|pp=xx–xxi}}

The parishes of [[Herne, Kent|Herne]] and, on the Isle of Thanet, [[St Nicholas-at-Wade]] were created from parts of Reculver parish in 1310, although they continued to have a subordinate relationship with their original parish into the 19th century, while [[Hoath]] remained a perpetual curacy into the 20th.<ref name=GrahamHastedHusseyBagshaw&news>{{harvnb|Graham|1944|pp=10–1}}; {{harvnb|Hasted|1800|pages=109–25}}; {{harvnb|Hussey|1902|loc=''passim''}}; {{harvnb|Bagshaw|1847|pages=217, 225}}; {{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed&nbsp;... |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19170702/131/0007 |newspaper=The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=2 July 1917 |access-date=9 May 2014 |url-access=subscription |postscript=;}} {{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Reculver |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000524/19221028/135/0008 |newspaper=Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald |date=28 October 1922 |access-date=9 May 2014 |url-access=subscription |postscript=;}} {{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Curate's suicide |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000330/19310522/054/0009 |newspaper=Dover Express |date=22 May 1931 |access-date=8 May 2014 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> Thereafter Reculver's parish boundary, enclosing an area of about {{convert|2|sqmi|km2|0}}, remained the same for both ecclesiastical and civil purposes until 1934, and included the settlements of Hillborough, Bishopstone and Brook, now Brook Farm.<ref name=unithistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10224330/relationships|title=Reculver AP/CP|at=Relationships and changes|author=Vision of Britain|publisher=University of Portsmouth et al.|year=2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519124630/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10224330/relationships | archive-date=19 May 2014 | url-status=live |access-date=19 May 2014|postscript=;}} {{harvnb|Bagshaw|1847|page=224}}.</ref> The parish extended west almost to [[Beltinge]], in Herne parish, and to [[Broomfield, Herne Bay|Broomfield]] in the south-west, where the boundary with Herne parish ran along the centre of the main thoroughfare, now Margate Road; it was bounded in open country on the south-east and east by the parish of Chislet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/sheet/county_diagrams_1920s/Kent_1921_1929|title=Ordnance Survey County Diagrams of England and Wales, Kent|author=Vision of Britain|publisher=University of Portsmouth et al.|year=2009|access-date=20 April 2014}}</ref>{{refn|For the historical parish boundary see {{cite web|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10224330/boundary|title=Reculver AP/CP|author=Vision of Britain|publisher=University of Portsmouth et al.|at=Boundary Map of Reculver AP/CP|year=2009|access-date=19 May 2014}} For the current ecclesiastical parish boundary, see {{cite web|url=https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/kml/parish/parish_560149.kml&hl=en&t=m&z=14|title=Parish Boundary (06BLK121)|author=achurchnearyou.com|publisher=Google Maps|year=2014|access-date=20 April 2014}}|group=Fn}} On 1 April 1934 the civil parish was abolished and merged with of Herne Bay.<ref name=unithistory /> In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 829.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10224330/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Reculver AP/CP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=29 September 2023}}</ref>

Reculver is in an [[Wards of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] of the same name that includes Beltinge, Bishopstone, Brook Farm, [[Boyden Gate]], Chislet, Hillborough, Hoath and [[Maypole, Canterbury|Maypole]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/23064/Canterbury_F_Sh1_SO.pdf |title=Final recommendations for ward boundaries in the City of Canterbury August 2014 |publisher=[[Local Government Boundary Commission for England|LGBCE]] |year=2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205152144/http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/23064/Canterbury_F_Sh1_SO.pdf |archive-date=5 December 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=5 December 2016 |df=dmy |postscript=;}} {{cite web|url=https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/7111/Ward-boundary-reference-maps.pdf |title=2015 ward boundary changes in Kent |publisher=Kent County Council |year=2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205155308/https://www.kent.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/7111/Ward-boundary-reference-maps.pdf |archive-date=5 December 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=5 December 2016 |df=dmy}}</ref> The ward is in the local government district of Canterbury and has one seat on Canterbury City Council; in the [[2019 United Kingdom local elections|local elections of 2019]], the seat was won by Rachel Lois Carnac, [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/electionresults?areaid=187 |title=Local election results 2019 |publisher=Canterbury City Council |year=2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503171311/https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/electionresults?areaid=187 |archive-date=3 May 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=3 May 2019 |df=dmy |postscript=;}} {{cite web|url=https://democracy.canterbury.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=6158 |title=Rachel Carnac |publisher=Canterbury City Council |year=2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508154944/https://democracy.canterbury.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=6158 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=9 May 2019 |df=dmy}}</ref> At the national level Reculver is in the English [[Electoral district|parliamentary constituency]] of [[Herne Bay and Sandwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Herne Bay and Sandwich]]. Sir [[Roger Gale]] (Conservative) has been [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for the area since 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/4097/overview|title=Sir Roger Gale MP|publisher=www.parliament.uk|date=2024 |access-date=9 February 2025}}</ref>