A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after one of Britain's most famous trees, known from cinema and to tourists, was felled with a chainsaw.
Oliver JJ LaneA 16-year-old boy has been arrested after one of Britain’s most famous trees, known from cinema and to tourists for its picturesque isolation and voted England’s best tree in 2016, was felled with a chainsaw.
Forensic investigators from Northumbria Police examine the felled Sycamore Gap tree, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage in connection with the cutting down of one of the UK’s most photographed trees. Picture date: Friday September 29, 2023. , fond of trees — police made a strong response to the felling, sending several vehicles and officers to the crime scene on Thursday morning.
The tree was not of enormous antiquity compared to some of Britain’s oldest trees, which can be thousands of years old, but its isolated position framed by a hollow standing over the ancient wall built at the order of Roman Emperor Hadrian in 122 A.D. made it beloved of tourists and walkers. The sycamoreand was known to some for that as ‘The Robin Hood Tree’.The Independent
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