Etchingham (population 806) is a village as well as civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southerly England. The town is located about 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent as well as 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its joint with the A21. Etchingham railway station gets on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and also Cannon Street. Etchingham was a manor a very long time prior to the Norman conquest of 1066; hereafter time the estate 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 document that William was so pleased with his right-hand man that he offered him the land currently known as Etchingham. The moated manor house, time out of mind destroyed, stood at the point now inhabited by the London to Hastings railway line. Several of the rock from the manor was possibly made use of in the construction of the terminal structures. There is one tale that a terrific bell lay at the bottom of the moat surrounding the church as well as mansion, and that it would certainly never be seen till six yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up. Centuries have gone by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has emerged. The 14th-century church was initially built within the premises of the manor; proof of the moat can still be seen.