Wadhurst

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A historic market town in East Sussex. Uplands Community College is here. Seven miles east of Crowborough and about seven miles south of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 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.

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. Within the church of St Peter and St. Paul there are several iron ledger-stone memorials of ironmasters.