The Dark Hedges are dying
“Game of Thrones” made them famous, to their cost
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous,” Lord Byron said. Just over a decade ago a secluded avenue of ancient beech trees in rural north Antrim, in Northern Ireland, experienced something similar. For two-and-a-half centuries, the “Dark Hedges” were known to only a few. The trees had been planted before Byron was born. They were mere saplings when the first shots were fired in the American Revolution.
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