The aurora borealis shines over the Sycamore Gap tree July 3, 2016, on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, England. Vandals cut the tree down in 2023.

Sycamore Gap Tree Took More Than a Century to Grow and Less Than 3 Minutes to Fell, Prosecutors Say A court has been told that the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in an “act of deliberate ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall ...

It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian's Wall in northern ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...

The felled Sycamore Gap tree is seen on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, Sept. 29, 2023. Credit: AP/Owen Humphreys The tree was far from Britain’s biggest or oldest.

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...

LONDON (AP) — It took well over a century for the Sycamore Gap tree to spread its limbs into the elegant canopy that made it a beloved site saddled between two hills along the ancient Hadrian ...