Etchingham is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex in southern England.

The manor, long since demolished, stood at the point now occupied by the London to Hastings railway line.

Legend of a great bell that lay at the bottom of the moat surrounding the church and manor is frequently recounted amongst locals and that it would never be seen until six yokes of white oxen were brought to drag it up.

The name Etchingham is probably derived from Old English, and roughly translates as "The homestead or enclosure of family and followers of a man called Ecchi".

Haremere was later owned by the second Sir John Lade, a notorious gambler and close friend of the Prince Regent.

Another famous resident, the novelist and critic Anthony Burgess, lived in a semi-detached house called Applegarth on the south side of the A265 road (west of the High Street).

His house can be distinguished by the presence of a small statue of a Siamese cat next to the building (he and his first wife Lynne were cat-lovers).

[9] The folk musicians Ashley Hutchings and Shirley Collins lived there in the 1970s and formed the Etchingham Steam Band in 1974.

In July 2020 the journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph Charles Moore was given a life peerage under the government of then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Henry Corbould FSA, the designer of the first postage stamp, the Penny Black, died at Hurst Green, having been taken ill there while travelling back to London from the coast, and was buried in Etchingham parish church.

The festival was held over the weekend following the issue of the Miniature Sheet in May, in the church and village hall.

The first village shop, "The Etchingham Stores", was built when the South Eastern Railway reached Robertsbridge c. 1860.

Along with several other properties in the village, the premises suffered flooding in October 2000; the then owners decided not to re-open the shop.

Village residents purchased shares in the newly formed Etchingham Community Shop Association Ltd.