Etchingham

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Etchingham
Etchingham (England)
Etchingham
Etchingham
Location in England

Access from the west
Basic data
status Village and Civil Parish
surface 13.34 km²
population 806 (as of 2011)
Ceremony county East Sussex
District Rother District
Constituency Bexhill and Battle
Website: etchinghamparishcouncil.org.uk

Etchingham is a village and at the same time a rural parish ( Civil Parish ) in the Rother District of East Sussex in south-east England .

geography

Etchingham is located in the High Weald and within the Area of ​​Outstanding Natural Beauty of the same name . The rural village extends in the form of a street village along the main road in an east-west direction. Parallel to this, the River Dudwell runs south of the village . It flows into the River Rother immediately east of Etchingham , just a little downstream of the River Limden , which flows in from the opposite side .

As a Civil Parish, Etchingham includes the eponymous capital as well as a number of agricultural homesteads. Neighboring parishes, starting to the north and going clockwise, are Ticehurst , Hurst Green , Salehurst and Robertsbridge and Burwash . Etchingham has a district area of ​​13,338 square kilometers and, as of 2011, 806 inhabitants.

history

Parish Church of St. Nicholas and St. Mary .

Etchingham goes back to a fortified manor from the Anglo-Saxon period . The name either refers to a person Ecci or to the Old English word ecen meaning big . In the course of the Norman conquest of England after 1066, the castle passed to a henchman of William I , whose family called themselves De Achyngham . The system no longer exists today, it was in the area of ​​today's railway line; the associated moat can still be seen in remains. The parish church of the village was built between 1362 and 1375 on part of the site.

In the historical division of England into Hundreds , Etchingham belonged to Henhurst as part of the Rape of Hastings. 1952 parts of the districts of Etchingham, Salehurst and Ticehurst were separated, from these the new municipality Hurst Green was formed.

Buildings

A total of 28 buildings and facilities in the municipality are classified as culturally and historically significant. These are the parish church of St. Nicholas and St. Mary from the 14th and the manor house Haremere Hall from the 17th century as listed building in the highest category I, the rest in the category II. The parish church in Etchingham has probably England's oldest weather vane made of brass, which has been in its original location since it was built around 1360. On the brass weather vane is the family crest of the "de Etchingham".

Transport links

Etchingham station building

The A265 runs through Etchingham and runs from Heathfield in the west to Hurst Green in the east, where it connects to the road network.

Etchingham was at, in this section completed in 1851 Hastings Line a train station , originating from the following year station building is a listed building. On the of Southeastern operated distance trains between Hastings in the south and Tonbridge to London Central stations London Bridge , Charing Cross and Cannon Street in the north.

Others

The local musician couple Ashley Hutchings and Shirley Collins founded the Etchingham Steam Band in the mid-1970s , which later became the Albion Dance Band .

Web links

Commons : Etchingham  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ map server of Natural England , retrieved on 16 March 2018th
  2. ↑ Information on the location and area of ​​the district on the website of the Office for National Statistics , accessed on March 14, 2018. (English)
  3. ↑ entry to Henhurst in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales , 1870-72, Volume III, page 922 (English)
  4. ↑ History section on the Hurst Green Parish Council website, accessed March 16, 2018
  5. ↑ Database query Etchingham Parish on the website of Historic England, carried out on March 12, 2018. (English)
  6. ↑ Michael Hymans: Sussex Steam , o. S., Stroud 2016. ISBN 1445663066 , preview on Google Books .
  7. ↑ Entry of the station building on the Historic England website , accessed on March 14, 2018. (English)
  8. ↑ Current overview of arrivals and departures in Etchingham on the National Rail website , accessed on March 14, 2018 (English)
  9. ↑ Timetable of the route on the Southeastern website, accessed on March 16, 2018 (English)
  10. ↑ Bruce Eder: Etchingham Steam Band at AllMusic , accessed on March 16, 2018 (English)

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′  N , 0 ° 26 ′  E