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Etchingham (population 806) is a village and also civil parish in the Rother area of East Sussex in southern England. The town is located roughly 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 joint with the A21. Etchingham train station gets on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Etchingham was a chateau a long time before the Norman occupation of 1066; after this time the chateau was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was entrusted to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family members, who were well-known landowners of the time. The Etchingham household papers record that William was so happy with his right-hand man that he gave him the land now called Etchingham. The moated manor house, long since destroyed, stood at the point currently inhabited by the London to Hastings railway line. Several of the rock from the manor was probably used in the building of the station buildings. There is one legend that a wonderful bell lay at the end of the moat surrounding the church and mansion, which it would certainly never be seen till 6 yoke of white oxen were offered drag it up. Centuries have gone by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has emerged. The 14th-century church was initially built within the premises of the mansion; proof of the moat can still be seen.