Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a village as well as civil church 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 and 13 miles (21 kilometres) 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 as well as Cannon Street. Etchingham was a chateau a long period of time before the Norman occupation of 1066; hereafter time the manor was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was entrusted to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) household, who were well-known landowners of the time. The Etchingham family papers record that William was so delighted with his right-hand man that he provided 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 railway line. A few of the stone from the mansion was possibly utilized in the building of the station structures. There is one legend that a fantastic bell lay at the bottom of the moat bordering the church and also estate, which it would certainly never ever be seen until six yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up. Centuries have actually gone by, the moat is long gone and no bell has actually surfaced. The 14th-century church was originally built within the premises of the manor; evidence of the moat can still be seen.