Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a town as well as civil church in the Rother district of East Sussex in southerly England. The village lies around 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and also 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 mansion a long time prior to the Norman conquest of 1066; hereafter time the estate was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was delegated the de Achyngham (Etchingham) household, that were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham household documents 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 point now occupied by the London to Hastings railway line. A few of the rock from the estate was probably utilized in the construction of the station buildings. There is one legend that a wonderful bell lay at the bottom of the moat bordering the church and manor, which it would certainly never be seen up until six yoke of white oxen were offered drag it up. Centuries have actually passed by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has appeared. The 14th-century church was originally developed within the premises of the estate; proof of the moat can still be seen.