Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England. It is the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which additionally consists of the hamlets of Cousley Wood as well as Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France. An electoral ward in the exact same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 5,181. Wadhurst is positioned on the Kent-- Sussex boundary seven miles (11 km) east of Crowborough and also regarding seven miles (11 km) south of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Other neighboring settlements consist of Ticehurst, Burwash, Mayfield and also Heathfield in East Sussex, and also Lamberhurst, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook in Kent. Physically, Wadhurst pushes a high ridge of the Weald-- a series of wooded hills encountering Sussex and Kent in between the North Downs as well as the South Downs. The storage tank of Bewl Water neighbors. The River Bewl, which is a sub-tributary of the River Medway, and also the Limden increase within the civil parish of Wadhurst.