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Crown & government

Coast commission

A commission whose surveyor attempted a survey of the Kentish cliffs.

Named with it

  • Surveyor Gilbert Reculver · of the coast commission

Ties

  • its survey was rebuffed by the chartered ports' corporations

At the table

The survey was abandoned (4613) after three corporations told Reculver it was not wanted; the county has a wreck law, a pilot roll and a customs house but no survey of its own cliffs.