Sycamore Gap Tree
Sycamore Gap Tree
Such a shame some prick felled it overnight.
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Saw this news this morning, not sure what anybody would get from just cutting it down.
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Is this for real, the culprits need jailing.
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Sadly decent folk on this island have to share it with some complete arseholes
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Where is that
Who wood do such a thing
Who wood do such a thing
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Hadrian's Wall, 4midable.
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I despair of our society. Why in Gods name would anyone take a chainsaw to a well known and loved landmark in the middle of the night.
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Such as shame. It's arguably the most famous part of the "Military Way" which is the most visible piece of the wall that runs for about 20 miles (84 miles in total) from Bowness on Sea to Wallsend.
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**** of the earth, I hope if the culprit is caught the maximum fine is imposed.
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If this is for real it's absolutely mind boggling. I can't help but suspect it's a wind up. It's an iconic tree in an amazing location right beside a gap in Hadrian's Wall. The "Twice Brewed Inn" is very close by and that's a brilliant pub with it's own overnight rooms, brewery and restaurant and it's own visiting star gazing professor who dishes out telescopes after dark and then shows you what to look at. The walks from there along the wall are great, including the Sycamore Gap. I've been a couple of times and I'm booked again in October.
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'If this is real' & 'you suspect its a wind up'Dark Cloud wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:33 pmIf this is for real it's absolutely mind boggling. I can't help but suspect it's a wind up. It's an iconic tree in an amazing location right beside a gap in Hadrian's Wall. The "Twice Brewed Inn" is very close by and that's a brilliant pub with it's own overnight rooms, brewery and restaurant and it's own visiting star gazing professor who dishes out telescopes after dark and then shows you what to look at. The walks from there along the wall are great, including the Sycamore Gap. I've been a couple of times and I'm booked again in October.
now ive read it all on here
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Surely No way that tree has been cut straight across like that and fallen at that angle
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This world is full of sad *****,hope they are caught and given a stiff sentence..
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Absolutely mind boggling that someone would go to all that trouble to destroy something so beautiful.
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Not sure what you mean. Well I was out and about when I saw this thread and hadn't had chance to check the news. My initial reaction was somebody could have been doing a bit of photoshop ping and putting out fake news, although absolutely devastating if that wasn't the case. I've looked at the news now and seems it's actually genuine.Venkys4eva wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 12:43 pm'If this is real' & 'you suspect its a wind up'
now ive read it all on here
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It’s just a tree
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Well that’s true but I’m not sure it’s the point.
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Hard to tell which is the real picture because the OP has posted a picture of the tree felled and one of it still standing in all it's glory.
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Absolutely incredible. It's in the middle of nowhere, somebody had to go massively out of their way to do this.
It makes literally no sense.
Just so very sad.
It makes literally no sense.
Just so very sad.
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What a ridiculous comment, it was a symbol of the National Park and a place for treasured memories for lots of people and irreplaceable.
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Treesured memories, well now they have a stump - im sure there will be a plaque or something in its place.durhamclaret wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:41 pmWhat a ridiculous comment, it was a symbol of the National Park and a place for treasured memories for lots of people and irreplaceable.
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That’s a disgrace.
A group of us walked along Hadrians Wall to raise funds for the grassroots football club we coach at and the tree was obviously one of the landmarks we saw along the way.
Shame the culprit appears to have known what they were doing so that it didn’t fall on them
A group of us walked along Hadrians Wall to raise funds for the grassroots football club we coach at and the tree was obviously one of the landmarks we saw along the way.
Shame the culprit appears to have known what they were doing so that it didn’t fall on them
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They're just kids messing about... (said about the drunk, coked-up chavs harassing people on the train)...It’s just a tree
It's just a crisp packet... (said about a chav contributing to filling up the streets of Manchester with shite)...
They're just green fields... (said about the relentless concreting over of the Ribble Valley)...
Tourists are a good thing... (said about the countless and growing drunk fights in Bowness)...
It's this kind of attitude that has and is ruining this country... We have lost our moral and cultural compass!
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Done the walk several times. It's hard to imagine anyone carting a chainsaw to and from the scene to the road or car park.burnley007 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:37 pmAbsolutely incredible. It's in the middle of nowhere, somebody had to go massively out of their way to do this.
It makes literally no sense.
Just so very sad.
Not everyone would have to go far to do something like this and I expect much of any police investigation will centre around local landowners who may not welcome the constant stream of visitors.
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No words except to say I despair for today's society.
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Treesured, that’s so funny, I have personal memories of people passed away you pratHagridsHut wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:48 pmTreesured memories, well now they have a stump - im sure there will be a plaque or something in its place.
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Absolutely no chance this is some random clown who fancied a bit of random vandalism.
It’s a professional job that requires know-how and specialist tools. Somebody’s been paid by someone to do this, likely a local farmer/landowner who has got fed up with the number of visitors to the area.
It’s a professional job that requires know-how and specialist tools. Somebody’s been paid by someone to do this, likely a local farmer/landowner who has got fed up with the number of visitors to the area.
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Not quite sure if you are fishing or truly just a complete and utter ****HagridsHut wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:48 pmTreesured memories, well now they have a stump - im sure there will be a plaque or something in its place.
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it's not mutually exclusive, they can be a complete ar5e AND fishingClaretDiver wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:04 pmNot quite sure if you are fishing or truly just a complete and utter ****
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A 16 year old boy has been arrested in connection to the felling of this iconic tree.
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Or a 16-year old kid.claret2018 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:42 pmAbsolutely no chance this is some random clown who fancied a bit of random vandalism.
It’s a professional job that requires know-how and specialist tools. Somebody’s been paid by someone to do this, likely a local farmer/landowner who has got fed up with the number of visitors to the area.
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A 16 year old vandal. Surely birching him would be a good way of punishing him! The absolute **** bag.
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A 16 year old, on his own, with a chain saw in the middle of the night, having to walk some distance from the nearest road?
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It appears that way.
A 20 minute walk for a young lad isn't a long walk and chainsaws aren't exactly heavy.
Bigger question for me is why would you?
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I’d imagine this is either some kid with mental issues or he’s been paid to fell it by someone with a grudge towards the NT? or local authority perhaps ? Looks a “ good” clean job and quite staggering that anyone would do this .
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They aren't light either. To cut down a tree that size you'd have to know what you were doing, particularly if it was done in the dark.
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First arrest of many possibly. I'm struggling to believe a 16 year old acting alone could do this.
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I despair of the human race at times and at the disgusting attitudes that are prevalent on this Island. I mean just look at the littering around the highways, dumped and dropped by ignorant disgusting people.
We don't deserve this beautiful planet that is our home...
We don't deserve this beautiful planet that is our home...
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This is terrible.
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I've had many years of walking this part of the wall and despair at the mentality of someone who could wreak such vandalism on a national monument.
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Wow!........makes no sense at all.
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A beautiful 300 year old living tree. Absolutely appalling news. Wanton destruction for no reason. **** bag who did this should be hung from a tree
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A bit of perspective is needed before condemning the whole ******* human race because one clown has chopped down a tree
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Do all 16-year-olds now possess a chainsaw? Possible defence ADHD that seems to get you off.
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Feelings are running high in Northumberland and Cumbria.
If the identity of who did this gets out, their safety will be in danger.
If the identity of who did this gets out, their safety will be in danger.
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They weigh nowt, a long cut chainsaw is about 7Kg, and cutting a tree down in one isn't that hard, scaling it and cutting it down in lumps is a different beast. My camera with the long lens weighs more and I carry that for miles over the moors; and I'm in my 60's.
Time will tell the whole story, but it's a sad story as the tree isn't there now.
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It makes no sense at all....unless he was paid to do it?burnley007 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:37 pmAbsolutely incredible. It's in the middle of nowhere, somebody had to go massively out of their way to do this.
It makes literally no sense.
Just so very sad.
Images of that tree backlit by The Northern Lights sell for big money.......no chance of a photographer taking the next image now.
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That's the whole point.
You can rebuild / replace an iconic building, structure, statue etc., but you can't rebuild a tree, and it will take centuries to regrow similar.
Vandalising /felling a healthy tree is one of the worst forms of vandalism. Irreparable, irreplaceable.