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Etchingham (population 806) is a town as well as civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex in southern England. The town is located around 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 joint with the A21. Etchingham train station is on the Hastings Line to London Charing Cross as well as Cannon Street. Etchingham was a mansion a long period of time before the Norman occupation of 1066; after this time the mansion was taken control of by the Normans. In 1166 it was entrusted to the de Achyngham (Etchingham) family, who were popular landowners of the moment. The Etchingham family members papers record that William was so delighted with his right-hand man that he offered him the land currently known as Etchingham. The moated manor house, long since demolished, stood at the factor currently inhabited by the London to Hastings train line. Some of the rock from the mansion was probably made use of in the building and construction of the terminal 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 never be seen till six yoke of white oxen were offered drag it up. Centuries have passed by, the moat is long gone and also no bell has appeared. The 14th-century church was initially built within the grounds of the estate; evidence of the moat can still be seen.