Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a town and also civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southerly England. The town is located roughly 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and also 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its joint with the A21. Etchingham railway station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Etchingham was a manor a very long time before the Norman occupation of 1066; after this time the chateau was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was delegated the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, who were widely known landowners of the time. The Etchingham household papers document that William was so delighted with his right-hand man that he provided him the land now known as Etchingham. The moated manor house, time out of mind destroyed, stood at the point currently occupied by the London to Hastings railway line. Several of the stone from the estate was probably used in the construction of the station buildings. There is one legend that an excellent bell lay at the bottom of the moat surrounding the church and chateau, which it would never ever be seen till six yoke of white oxen were given drag it up. Centuries have actually gone by, the moat is long gone as well as no bell has actually appeared. The 14th-century church was originally built within the premises of the estate; evidence of the moat can still be seen.