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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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ...
East Sussex is a county in South East England. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid...
In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
Cousley Wood is a small village near Wadhurst and Bewl Water in East Sussex in South east England. ...
Situation
Wadhurst is situated on the Kent-Sussex border seven miles east of Crowborough and about seven miles south of Tunbridge Wells. Other nearby settlements include Ticehurst, Burwash, Mayfield and Heathfield in East Sussex, and Lamberhurst, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook in Kent. Location within the British Isles Crowborough is the largest inland town in East Sussex, United Kingdom. ...
Tunbridge Wells (officially Royal Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...
Ticehurst is a relatively small village in south east England. ...
Burwash is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. ...
Mayfield is a village nine miles south of Tunbridge Wells in East Sussex, England. ...
The Parish of Heathfield and Waldron is in East Sussex, some 16 miles from the coastal town of Eastbourne and 17 miles from the historic spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. ...
Lamberhurst is a village on the borders of Kent and East Sussex, although the parish was, at one time, in both counties. ...
Hawkhurst is virtually two villages - one, the older of the two, consisting mainly of cottages clustered around a large triangular green known as the Moor, and the other, further north on the main road, called Highgate. ...
Cranbrook is a Kentish village on the Maidstone-Hastings road, some five miles north of Hawkhurst. ...
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 Teise, which is a tributary of the Medway, and the Limden rise within the civil parish of Wadhurst. A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called the Weald. ...
Sussex is a traditional county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ...
Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...
The North Downs in England are a ridge of chalk hills that stretch about 100 mi (160 km) from Hampshire through Surrey and Kent. ...
Near Beachy Head The South Downs is one of the two areas of chalk downland in southern England. ...
Bewl Water is a reservoir in the valley of the River Teise straddling the boundary between Kent and East Sussex. ...
The Medway Towns is the name given to a conurbation located to the north of Kent in England: until 1998 it was part of that county (see below). ...
History 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.
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". This article is about the 11th century census. ...
Events Domesday Book is completed in England Emperor Shirakawa of Japan starts his cloistered rule Imam Ali Mosque is rebuilt by the Seljuk Malik Shah I after being destroyed by fire. ...
Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
It was Henry III who granted Wadhurst its charter in 1253. This allowed Wadhurst to hold a market every Saturday and a fair on the feast of St Peter and St Paul, 29 June. Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272) is one of the least-known British monarchs, considering the great length of his reign. ...
For broader historical context, see 1250s and 13th century. ...
In the 16th, 17th & 18th centuries Wadhurst had a thriving iron industry. Two of the large Georgian buildings in the High Street, Hill House and The Old Vicarage, were both ironmasters houses, along with a number of other large houses on the outskirts of Wadhurst.
Buildings and People Wadhurst is a small market town, and has kept a good range of shops considering its size. The population of the civil parish is about 4,500.
There are three buildings of particular architectural interest in the town itself, and a good range of old manor houses and farms nearby. The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul dominates the centre of the town. Wadhurst's heritage as a centre of the iron industry is shown by the many iron gravestones in the church. There are two early Georgian houses on the High Street, the Old Vicarage and Hill House.
The rest of the town is in a variety of vernacular styles, dating from the 15th century onwards, though little in the centre of the town is very modern apart from a range of shops which replaced the Queens Head hotel, demolished in a jet crash in the 1950s.
The Victorian era saw the town expand towards the new railway station, about 1.5 miles north of the town. The station (the highest in southern England) is on the line from London Charing Cross to Hastings via Tunbridge Wells, and was opened in 1851 by the South Eastern Railway. The resulting expansion brought the hamlets of Sparrow's Green, Turners Green and Best Beech Hill into the town. Wadhurst railway station is on the Hastings Line in East Sussex in England, and serves the town of Wadhurst. ...
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England and is the most populous city in the European Union. ...
The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...
For other uses, see Hastings (disambiguation). ...
Tunbridge Wells (officially Royal Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...
1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The London and Greenwich Railway (LGR), together with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (CWR) in East Kent were the earliest railways to serve the then county of Kent: eventually both became parts of the South Eastern Railway (SER). ...
Wadhurst Today Wadhurst is a prosperous town and an important centre for London commuters, although it is far enough from London not to feel completely like a dormitory town. It has active clubs and societies, and two primary schools along with a secondary school (Uplands Community Technology College) that performs well in local league tables. As with much of south-east England, traffic has become a problem in recent years.
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