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Famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall found cut down (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Police investigating after former tree of the year winner, estimated to be several hundred years old, felled

Edit: Update!
Police arrest 16-year-old after Northumberland landmark 'felled'

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Update!
Police arrest 16-year-old after Northumberland landmark 'felled'

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

If found guilty, let him pay for replanting a similar-aged tree to the site.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Throw the book at him!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

With paper manufactured from the tree!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

That little shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Lil shits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

We have reason to believe it has been deliberately felled.

I wonder what gave it away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Someone needs to mill it and make a lot of souvenirs to help pay for the new tree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

just a put wood glue

[+] [email protected] -29 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Can someone explain why it's so terrible, that this tree has been felled?
I don't think I've seen it before, so to me it's more significant that it fell on Hadrian's wall. But I do seem to be ignorant here, so can someone educate me?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

It was hundreds of years old and people liked the tree enough that it was featured in photographs and film. It's not terribly complicated.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To many in the region, it was more than just a tree. It was where they proposed, it was where they went to find calm during a tough period, it was where they said their final goodbyes to a loved one etc. To say the tree was iconic would be an understatement. It was a constant in a time of change and a place of undeniable beauty in a world of increasing shit. The kinda place you make a special trip out to once your kids are old enough and show them a part of their local identity, untouched by the passing of time.

At the end of the day, yes it is just a tree. But it is also a many missed memories being made and just one more destruction of something just a little special. It's no surprise people were speculating that some landowner or farmer was refused planning permission after it first happened. Because that is what we're used to, someone selfish taking away something that was just there because it was beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Read the article, it contain info.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trees are only significant if you've seen them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

He's literally asking for knowledge. And your take is to ask him if something is only significant if he's seen it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

At a minimum, it was owned by the national trust, so in no way was it his tree to cut down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why you are being down voted. You are asking for knowledge. Others have provided decent answers though. Again not sure why you are being down voted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well, I assume some people understood me as asking "It's just a tree, why the bother?". I tried to get around this with wording, but whatever.

I kinda guess this is largely a "local" thing (not sure how large "local" is though). And of course it's a pity that an angry teen destroyed a hundreds of years old tree.