Major Oak dies: Robin Hood’s 1,200-year-old tree in Sherwood Forest ‘killed by too many visitors’
Death of ancient oak said to have housed legendary outlaw partly blamed on overtourism
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Robin Hood’s Major Oak in Sherwood Forest has died, experts say
The Major Oak has stood in Sherwood Forest for an estimated 1,200 years.
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