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Wadhurst

Wadhurst
Wadhurst is located in East Sussex
Wadhurst
Wadhurst
Wadhurst shown within East Sussex
Area 40.1 km2 (15.5 sq mi) 
Population 4,883 (Parish-2011)
• Density 311/sq mi (120/km2)
OS grid reference TQ640318
• London 36 miles (58 km) NNW
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WADHURST
Postcode district TN5
Dialling code 01892
Police Sussex
Fire East Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
Website Wadhurst Parish Council
List of places
UK
England
East Sussex
51°04′N 0°20′E / 51.06°N 0.34°E / 51.06; 0.34Coordinates: 51°04′N 0°20′E / 51.06°N 0.34°E / 51.06; 0.34

Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England. It is the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which also includes the hamlets of Cousley Wood and Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France.

Wadhurst is situated on the Kent–Sussex border seven miles (11 km) east of Crowborough and about seven miles (11 km) south of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Other nearby settlements include Ticehurst, Burwash, Mayfield and Heathfield in East Sussex, and Lamberhurst, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook in Kent.

Physically, Wadhurst lies on a high ridge of the Weald – a range of wooded hills running across Sussex and Kent between the North Downs and the South Downs. The reservoir of Bewl Water is nearby. The River Bewl, which is a sub-tributary of the River Medway, and the Limden rise within the civil parish of Wadhurst.

The name Wadhurst (Wadeherst in early records) is Anglo-Saxon and most probably derives from Wada which is believed to be the name of a Saxon tribe which occupied the area and began the clearing of the forests in the 7th or 8th century. There is an Anglo-Saxon manor known as Bivelham which lay between the parishes of Wadhurst and Mayfield.

Although Wadhurst was almost certainly in existence at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, it was part of the Archbishop of Canterbury's land and was therefore not mentioned. The earliest record relating to the area is a reference in the Cartulary of Battle Abbey to "Snape in the parish of Wadhurst".


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