Speculation has been swirling as to why the famous landmark, which appeared in Kevin Costner s 1991 film Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves, was destroyed over night on Wednesday.
Britain s most famous tree had stood at Sycamore Gap along Hadrian s Wall in Northumberland for 300 years before it was felled on Wednesday night with a chainsaw.
Sycamore Gap, which stood in a dramatic dip in Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park, was mysteriously chopped down in a shocking act of vandalism, which has left communities outraged