Richborough, Kent

Historical Description

Richborough, a hamlet in Ash-next-Sandwich parish, Kent, on a hill adjacent to the river Stour, 1½ mile N by W of Sandwich station on the S.E.R. It was once an island, surrounded by the Stour; it seems to have been a post of the ancient Britons; it became the site of the Roman strong fort Rutupiae, for defending the adjacent coast, called from it Little Rutupinum; it was the favourite landing-place of the Romans in crossing from the coast of Bononia, the modern Boulogne; it was known to the Saxons as Reptacester; it has yielded great variety of British, Roman, and Saxon relics;, and it now presents one of the most striking assemblages £ extant Roman remains in Great Britain. These remains include towers, gates, a castrensian amphitheatre, the base of a. building 144 feet by 104, and part of walls 560 feet long, from 26 to 30 feet high, and from 6 to 12 feet thick.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:

• Kent & Sussex Courier
• Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
• Dover Express
• Kentish Gazette
• Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
• Kentish Chronicle
• Maidstone Telegraph

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.