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Etchingham (population 806) is a village and civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southern England. The village lies around 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and also 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its junction with the A21. Etchingham train station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross as well as Cannon Street. Etchingham was an estate a long period of time before the Norman occupation of 1066; hereafter time the estate was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was entrusted to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family members, that were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham family members papers record that William was so happy with his right-hand man that he offered him the land now called Etchingham. The moated manor house, long since demolished, stood at the factor now occupied by the London to Hastings railway line. Some of the stone from the estate was possibly made use of in the building of the station buildings. There is one legend that a fantastic bell lay at the end of the moat bordering the church and also manor, and that it would certainly never ever be seen till six yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up. Centuries have passed by, the moat is long gone and no bell has appeared. The 14th-century church was originally developed within the grounds of the manor; evidence of the moat can still be seen.