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Sycamore Gap

Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

Britain's most famous tree, felled overnight in an act of vandalism.

For around 150 years, a lone sycamore stood in a dip in the land beside Hadrian's Wall. It appeared in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and was voted England's Tree of the Year.

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When
Felled September 2023
Where
55.0030, -2.3730
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

A walk along the Wall from Steel Rigg car park. The stump has begun to sprout again.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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