Sycamore Gap Tree Regrows Three Years After Illegal Felling at Hadrian's Wall

Key facts

• The Sycamore Gap tree was illegally cut down on September 28, 2023.
• Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty of two counts of criminal damage and sentenced to four years and three months in prison.
• Adam Carruthers was released from prison earlier this year to serve the remainder of his sentence at home under strict conditions.
• The tree stood for nearly 200 years along Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England.
• It appeared in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and was named English Tree of the Year by the Woodland Trust in 2016.
• The falling tree damaged part of Hadrian's Wall, a 73-mile fortification built by the Roman army beginning around 122 CE.
• For the third year in a row, new shoots have grown from the base of the stump, forming a thick ring between 2 and 3 feet tall.
• The National Trust has grown 49 'Trees of Hope' from the original tree, one for every foot of its height, planted across the United Kingdom.