It’s spring, and like they had done for the past 150 years, the leaves of the Sycamore Gap tree should be unfurling to give yet another seasonal colour change to its most historical landscape.
But the world-famous tree, once prominently located in a natural dip of countryside along Hadrian’s Wall, is now only a single stump, fenced off to the public, after it was felled one night in September 2023.
