Two friends used a chainsaw to bring down the Sycamore Gap tree while filming it, a jury has been told. Daniel Graham, 39, of Milbeck Stables, Carlisle, and Adam Carruthers, 32, of Church Street ...

The tree before it was felled. - Andre Poling/ullstein bild/Getty Images Sycamore Gap was considered one of the most photographed trees in England and was voted as English Tree of the Year in 2016.

The removal of the tree from its spot known as “Sycamore Gap,” a pronounced dip in Hadrian’s Wall, in September 2023 sparked global outrage.

Sycamore Gap had extra poignancy to Si because of another personal tragedy. The close friend who had texted him on the day to say the tree had been cut down had lost her son when he was just 18.

LONDON — It was neither Britain’s biggest tree nor its oldest. But the majestic sycamore that stood for 150 years along a stretch of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was one of the most ...

Two former friends have been found guilty of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “deliberate and mindless criminal damage”. Ground worker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam ...

FILE – A general view of the stars above Sycamore Gap prior to the Perseid Meteor Shower above Hadrian’s Wall near Bardon Mill, England, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File) ...

Adam Carruthers and Daniel Graham were each sentenced to four years and three months in prison for cutting down the tree – a historical landmark and beloved centuries-old Sycamore – in 2023 ...

The tree's stump will remain. "The 50-foot tree, which had stood in the historic landscape for nearly 200 years, will be carefully moved" and stored, the U.K.'s National Trust told NPR.