Editing Wadhurst (section)

==Buildings and people==
[[File:Wadhurst commemoration hall.jpg|thumb|upright|Hall of Commemoration on High Street.]]
Wadhurst is a small market town, and has kept a very good range of shops considering its size. It has a traditional butcher, baker, ironmonger, hairdresser, bank, post office, gift shop, and several pubs. The population of the ward was 4,883 at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]].<ref name="pop">{{cite web|title=National Statistics – Neighbourhood statistics by ward|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/areasubject.do|access-date=29 August 2006|archive-date=20 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820234429/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/areasubject.do|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, the population estimate is 4,025 according to the [[Office for National Statistics]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population figures for urban and rural areas - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/populationfiguresforurbanandruralareas |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=www.ons.gov.uk}}</ref>

There are three buildings of particular architectural interest in the town itself, and a number of old manor houses and farms nearby. There are two early Georgian houses on the High Street, the Old Vicarage and Hill House. On the outskirts is the 19th-century [[Wadhurst Castle]].

The rest of the town is in a variety of vernacular styles, from the 13th century onwards; and little in the centre of the town is very modern apart from a range of shops which replaced the Queens Head Hotel,{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} demolished in the crash of a [[Gloster Meteor]] in January 1956 in which four people were killed.<ref name=Times230156>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Village recovering from air crash |date=23 January 1956 |page=4  |issue=53435 |column=F }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4629692.stm |title=BBC NEWS &#124; UK &#124; England &#124; Southern Counties &#124; Memorial for village plane crash |date=20 January 2006 |access-date=8 August 2016 |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123091824/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4629692.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Church Street contains a row of 13th- and 14th-century cottages which are reputed to be the oldest properties in Wadhurst. Some apparently were built as a cloister to St. Peters and St. Paul's Church.