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Etchingham (population 806) is a village and civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southern England. The town is located around 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 gets on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and also Cannon Street. Etchingham was a chateau a very long time before the Norman conquest of 1066; hereafter time the mansion was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was left to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) household, who were well-known landowners of the moment. The Etchingham household papers record that William was so happy with his right-hand man that he offered him the land currently known as Etchingham. The moated manor house, time out of mind knocked down, stood at the factor now inhabited by the London to Hastings railway line. Some of the rock from the chateau was probably utilized in the construction of the station buildings. There is one tale that an excellent bell lay at the end of the moat surrounding the church as well as mansion, which it would never ever be seen up until six yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up. Centuries have passed by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has actually appeared. The 14th-century church was initially constructed within the grounds of the estate; evidence of the moat can still be seen.