Tree surgeon and fencing services near Crowhurst

Crowhurst sits in the Combe Haven valley between Battle and the coast, a station village with old farms and newer closes folded into steep, wooded ground. This is a village that knows what an old tree is. The yew in St George's churchyard has stood for well over a thousand years, one of the oldest living things in Sussex, and the parish around it grew up under oak and hornbeam. The species mix we work most is mature English oak, hornbeam and field maple on the boundaries, willow and alder down on the wet valley floor, and ash on the lane edges that is mostly going or gone to dieback.

The valley ground matters. The bottom fields sit wet on Weald clay for half the year, which changes where a chipper can stand, how a stump grinder behaves, and how long postcrete takes to go off. Fore Wood, the RSPB reserve above the village, is a reminder that this is nesting country; between March and August we check every tree before a saw starts, properly.

Crowhurst falls under Rother District Council, the same authority we deal with for Battle, Burwash and Rye. If a tree sits in a conservation area and is over 75mm in diameter at 1.5 metres, you generally need a Section 211 notice filed with Rother six weeks before any work. A TPO'd tree needs a formal application regardless. The veteran oaks in the older village gardens are exactly the trees that carry orders, so it is worth checking before anyone quotes you. Send us the address and we'll check Rother's planning map before we price the job, and we file whatever paperwork the tree needs on your behalf. The churchyard yew is not ours to touch, and we like it that way.

Not sure whether a tree in Crowhurst is protected? Check it by postcode, read our council-by-council conservation area guide, or see how we handle protected tree work.