The tree became famous after a cameo in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.” It was voted English “Tree of the Year” in 2016.

The Sycamore Gap tree, a beloved symbol of northeast England located at a UNESCO heritage site, was cut down in 2023 in what prosecutors called a “moronic mission.”

Two men who cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree were sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. The tree stood for nearly 150 years before Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers carried out what a prosecutor called a “moronic mission” and cut it down in the middle of the night,