Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a town as well as civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southerly England. The village is located about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and 13 miles (21 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its junction with the A21. Etchingham train station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and also Cannon Street. Etchingham was a chateau a very long time before the Norman occupation of 1066; hereafter time the mansion was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was entrusted to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, who were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham family members papers record that William was so pleased with his right-hand man that he gave him the land now called Etchingham. The moated manor house, long since demolished, stood at the factor now occupied by the London to Hastings train line. A few of the rock from the estate was most likely made use of in the building of the terminal structures. There is one tale that an excellent bell lay at the bottom of the moat bordering the church and chateau, and that it would never ever be seen until six yoke of white oxen were given drag it up. Centuries have actually gone by, the moat is long gone and no bell has actually appeared. The 14th-century church was originally developed within the premises of the chateau; evidence of the moat can still be seen.
