Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a village and civil parish in the Rother area of East Sussex in southern England. The village lies around 15 miles (24 km) 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 train station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross as well as Cannon Street. Etchingham was a mansion a very long time before the Norman occupation of 1066; after this time the manor was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was left to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) household, that were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham household documents document 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, time out of mind knocked down, stood at the factor now inhabited by the London to Hastings train line. Some of the stone from the mansion was probably utilized in the building and construction of the terminal buildings. There is one tale that a wonderful bell lay at the end of the moat bordering the church and also mansion, and that it would certainly never ever be seen until 6 yoke of white oxen were offered drag it up. Centuries have passed by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has surfaced. The 14th-century church was initially developed within the grounds of the manor; proof of the moat can still be seen.
