This first newsletter is being distributed to all who have expressed interest in the Wadhurst History Society - including those who are already paid up members and those who have yet to join.  Future issues will be distributed to the members free of charge and will be available to others at cost.

The first meeting of the Society has been arranged for Tuesday 16 December at 19:30 in the Freight Transport Association Management Centre in Station Hill.  It is open to anyone interested in adding to our knowledge of Wadhurst and its history; we aim to establish a series of task groups which will explore an area of interest to the group over the next nine months or so; the work of the groups will be reported back to the full membership from time to time--as a short talk to the Society or an article in a future newsletter.  Then another task can begin!
We need to find relatively easy challenges - we are, after all, amateurs and enthusiasts rather than professional local historians: so don't be hesitant about getting involved.  It will be a long time before we can take on the challenge, set by Chris Whittick from the East Sussex Record Office, of transcribing and translating Archbishop Morton's rental rolls for Wadhurst!
The subject areas already identified as of interest to members are: