Aurora borealis over Sycamore Gap Tree, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland
Aurora borealis over Sycamore Gap Tree, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland (© Guy Edwardes/NPL/Minden Pictures)
Stars over Sycamore Gap
The Northern Lights have set the sky alight with colour here at Northumberland's famous Sycamore Gap. This tree has been keeping a lonely vigil for hundreds of years at the bottom of a steep dip in Hadrian’s Wall, the 73-mile-long fortification built to mark the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Silhouetted against the sky, it is said to be the most photographed spot in Northumberland National Park.
© Guy Edwardes/NPL/Minden Pictures