Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a town and also civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex in southerly England. The village is located approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent as well as 13 miles (21 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its junction with the A21. Etchingham railway station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and also Cannon Street. Etchingham was a mansion a very long time before the Norman conquest of 1066; hereafter time the estate was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was delegated the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, that were well-known landowners of the time. The Etchingham family papers record that William was so happy with his right-hand man that he offered him the land now referred to as Etchingham. The moated manor house, long since knocked down, stood at the point currently occupied by the London to Hastings train line. Several of the rock from the mansion was most likely used in the building of the station buildings. There is one legend that a fantastic bell lay at the end of the moat bordering the church and also estate, and that it would certainly never ever be seen until 6 yoke of white oxen were offered drag it up. Centuries have actually passed by, the moat is long gone as well as no bell has actually surfaced. The 14th-century church was originally built within the premises of the mansion; evidence of the moat can still be seen.