Our columnist on how some good might come out of the felling of the sycamore in the gap.
In Didling churchyard, under the north slope of the Sussex Downs, stands a huge and ancient yew, guardian of a tiny downland graveyard in which, among other treasures, lies an enigmatic gravestone that may mark the final resting place of a Templar knight.
At the base of the yew is a square-edged incision made in 1945 when a workman, misunderstanding his instructions to lop a…
