WADHURST, a parish in the hundred of LOXFIELD-PELHAM, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 8 miles (S. E.) from Tonbridge-Wells, containing 2136 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar' jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £ 15. 1. 0., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is partly in the early, and partly in the later, style of English architecture. There is a place of worship for Baptists. Mr. Barham, in 1730, left a rent-charge of £5 for the education of twelve poor children; the master's salary is augmented by a further annuity of £ 5 from the inhabitants.