An Ancient Oak Tree Said to Have Sheltered Legendary Robin Hood Has Died - WXXV News 25
The conservation group said visitors’ footsteps, drought and heat waves likely contributed, and the landmark will remain standing for tourists.
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A secular oak tree in Sherwood Forest, northern England, which, according to legend, served as a shelter for the Haiduc and hero Robin Hood, seems to have died, announced Thursday the organization that takes care of him.
One of the most emblematic trees in Europe has come to the end of its long existence. Major Oak, the giant oak tree associated for centuries with the legends of Robin Hood, has died after more than a millennium of life in the Sherwood forest in central England.The confirmation came after the tree did not produce leaves during the last spring, an unequivocal sign that there was no longer enough biological activity to keep it alive.For years, spec…
After more than a thousand years, the mighty tree in the Sherwood Forest, under which Robin Hood was once said to have stored, has come to an apparently premature end.
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