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Etchingham (population 806) is a village and also civil church in the Rother area of East Sussex in southerly England. The town lies approximately 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 gets on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Etchingham was an estate a very long time before the Norman conquest of 1066; after this time the mansion was taken over by the Normans. In 1166 it was left to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, that were widely known 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 called Etchingham. The moated manor house, time out of mind destroyed, stood at the point currently inhabited by the London to Hastings railway line. Several of the stone from the estate was possibly used in the building and construction of the station structures. There is one legend that a great bell lay at the bottom of the moat bordering the church and also manor, which it would never 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 no bell has appeared. The 14th-century church was originally built within the grounds of the manor; proof of the moat can still be seen.