Today, the Betsey Williams Sycamore Tree still stands at 80 feet tall outside the newly renovated Betsey Williams Cottage, which frequently hosts open houses to explore the cottage's history.

While Connecticut has plenty of fantastic trees to look at this time of year, many of the state's trees are full of history as well as beauty. In fact, the oldest tree in Connecticut is estimated to ...

When the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in September 2023, it triggered an outpouring of grief and outrage. Believed to be about 200 years old, the stately tree rose out of a dip in the ...

A combination of pictures shows, top, the Sycamore Gap tree along Hadrian's Wall near Hexham, northern England on June 4, 2023, and bottom, the felled Sycamore Gap tree, on Sept. 28, 2023. When the ...

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty of two counts each of criminal damage for cutting down beloved Sycamore Gap tree and toppling it onto Hadrian's Wall.

This was not, as one of the defendants in the case would claim during his trial, “just a tree.” Planted in the 1800s, the towering sycamore was a beloved symbol of the area and had featured in ...

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were convicted May 9 of two counts of criminal damage for felling the so-called Sycamore Gap tree on Sept. 27, 2023. The tree stood at the center of a ...

Police officers looking at the remains of the tree at Sycamore Gap, next to Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland, in September 2023. Owen Humphreys/PA/AP via CNN Newsource Adam Carruthers arrives at ...

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of felling the Sycamore Gap tree, which had stood next to Hadrian's Wall in northeast England for around 200 years.

The jury determined Graham and Carruthers caused £622,191 (about $826,000) of criminal damage to the tree and £1,144 ($1,500) of damage to Hadrian’s Wall, according to PA Media.

The Sycamore Gap tree was a really big tree, and it was a landscape feature. To replace that landscape feature is going to be more than our lifetime. And that’s what we have to understand.