When the Sycamore Gap tree was felled, many began to wonder how the tree, so perfectly positioned in the central dip of the Hadrian's Wall between Housesteads and Steel Rigg, Northumberland, came to be in the first place. Was it deliberately planted or simply "serendipity of the wind"? Many suspect the hand of John Clayton.

Park authorities have decided Britain’s most famous trees will go on display after being felled in a ‘malicious act of vandalism’ last year. Northumberland National Park said the largest section of the tree that once stood at Sycamore Gap will go on display at a nearby tourist attraction, The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre.

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were sentenced to more than 4 years in prison for cutting down the iconic Sycamore Gap Tree in a "deliberate and mindless" act.