Barnabas Knell was vicar from 1602 to 1646: during the English Civil War his son Paul Knell, born in about 1615, was chaplain to a regiment of Royalist cuirassiers, to whom he preached a sermon, "The convoy of a Christian", at the siege of Gloucester in August 1643. An estate map of 1685 shows that much of the land around Reculver then belonged to James Oxenden, who spent much of his life as an MP for Kent constituencies between 1679 and 1702. In popular culture Author Russell Hoban repurposes Reculver as "Reakys Over" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker. References Ian Fraser Blanthorn local East Kent Historian. Footnotes Notes Bibliography External links Roman fortifications in England Anglo-Saxon sites in England Archaeological sites in Kent City of Canterbury Country parks in Kent English Heritage sites in Kent Villages in Kent