Town flag
Wadhurst (Sussex)
- Flag type
- Town flag
- UK Design Code
- UNKG7543
- Flag date
- 25th September 2019
- Designer
- Paul Eldridge with Brady Ells
- Adoption route
- Wadhurst Parish Council
- Aspect ratio
- 3:5
- Pantone colours
- Green 356Gold 137White
- Certification
- Flag Institute Chief Vexillologist, Graham Bartram
About the flag
The Wadhurst Flag is a community flag proclaiming the unique identity of this Sussex town and its people.
The green field of the Wadhurst Flag evokes the town’s rural nature.
A golden-orange section, forming a ‘W’ for Wadhurst, recalls the historic iron industry and the mineral colour of local streams.
It also symbolises the hills, steep valleys and meandering streams of the surrounding High Weald.
Between the arms of the ‘W’ lie three estoiles (wavy stars) derived from the Courthope arms.
The Courthope family owned the Whiligh Estate that covered much of Wadhurst.
This estate also produced the oak used for Westminster Hall’s famous hammer-beam roof (1398-1401), the largest medieval timber roof in Europe.
