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Etchingham (population 806) is a town and also civil church in the Rother district of East Sussex in southern England. The town is located around 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent and 13 miles (21 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, on the A265, half a mile west of its joint with the A21. Etchingham train station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Etchingham was an estate a long time prior to the Norman occupation of 1066; hereafter time the estate was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was delegated the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family members, who were well-known landowners of the time. The Etchingham family members documents record that William was so happy with his right-hand man that he gave him the land currently known as Etchingham. The moated manor house, time out of mind demolished, stood at the factor now inhabited by the London to Hastings railway line. Several of the rock from the manor was possibly utilized in the building and construction of the terminal structures. There is one tale that a great bell lay at the end of the moat surrounding the church as well as mansion, which it would never be seen till 6 yoke of white oxen were brought to drag it up. Centuries have actually passed by, the moat is long gone as well as no bell has actually surfaced. The 14th-century church was initially developed within the grounds of the mansion; proof of the moat can still be seen.