Etchingham Manor (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Etchingham.
In the historic county of Sussex.
Modern Authority of East Sussex.
1974 county of East Sussex.
Medieval County of Sussex (Rape of Hastings).

OS Map Grid Reference: TQ714264
Latitude 51.01027° Longitude 0.44285°

Etchingham Manor has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are no visible remains.

Description

A small castle or fortified manor-house stood on the site of the Railway Station at Etchingham (Leeney).
There is no trace of a castle or fortified manor house in the area of Etchingham railway station. A map dated c1850 shows a house surrounded by a water feature, which Leeney may have assumed to have been a defensive moat. Little remains of the water-feature save for drainage ditches on the W side of the station, none of which can be said to resemble a moat. (East Sussex HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 414695.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MES3798.

Books
- Vivian, Sylvanus P., 1953, The Manor of Etchingham cum Salehurst (Sussex Record Society 53)
  Holland, L.E., History of Etchingham (otherwise unidentified source given in PastScape)
Periodical Articles
- Leeney, O.H., 1948, Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 87 p. 200

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