Wardensville is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States.

Wardensville is located west of the Great North Mountain range, which separates it from the Shenandoah Valley.

The town lies on the east bank of the Cacapon River at its confluence with Trout Run.

The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests border the town to its east and south.

The land which Wardensville occupies was originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a 5 million acre tract granted by England's King Charles II and formally established after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660.

In 1719, the land was inherited by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron who administered many of the land grants to the early European settlers who began arriving in the Capon Valley in the second quarter of the eighteenth century.

He received a parcel of land from Thomas Fairfax, reportedly surveyed by George Washington, on November 11, 1749.

After this building collapsed in 1934, the present stone church, designed by A. Hensel Fink in Gothic Revival style.

[10] The Old Presbyterian Church was constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century and is a rare example of Italianate style in Wardensville.

The Odd Fellows Hall was erected in 1856 on the southern edge of town near the intersection of Main Street and Trout Run Road.

Two properties near Wardensville are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Francis Kotz Farm and the Nicholas Switzer House.

WV 259 heads southwest and northeast, but serves virtually no significant population centers.