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Etchingham
Etchingham (population 806) is a town as well as civil parish in the Rother area of East Sussex in southerly England. The town is located about 15 miles (24 kilometres) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and 13 miles (21 km) 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 Cannon Street. Etchingham was a chateau a long period of time before the Norman conquest of 1066; hereafter time the manor was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was left to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family members, that were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham family documents 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 demolished, stood at the factor now occupied by the London to Hastings train line. A few of the rock from the mansion was possibly made use of in the construction of the terminal structures. There is one tale that a wonderful bell lay at the bottom of the moat surrounding the church and mansion, and that it would certainly never ever be seen till 6 yoke of white oxen were given drag it up. Centuries have actually passed by, the moat is long gone and no bell has appeared. The 14th-century church was initially developed within the premises of the mansion; evidence of the moat can still be seen.