At some point during the night of 27 September 2023, in the middle of a storm, someone hiked up to Sycamore Gap, started up a large chainsaw and cut down one the UK’s most famous and most loved trees. The Sycamore tree that stood in this natural dip in Hadrian’s Wall was over 300 years old. ...
A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO WALKING HADRIAN’S WALL
In 122AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of an 84 mile defensive wall between the River Tyne on the east coast of England, to the Solway estuary in the west. It took six years to build the wall, and its forts and milecastles were occupied by military forces until the Romans left ...