Planetrees is an extant section of Hadrian's Wall named after the farm located around 250 metres (270 yd) to the west.

[1] During his visit to Hadrian's Wall, he encountered a workman robbing stone from this stretch for use in the construction of a nearby farmhouse, and persuaded the workman to desist: At the twentieth-mile stone, I should have seen a piece of Severus's Wall seven feet and a half high, and two hundred and twenty-four yards long: a sight not to be found in the whole line.

I desired the servant with whom I conversed, "to give my compliments to Mr. Tulip, and request him to desist, or he would wound the whole body of Antiquaries.

As he was putting an end to the most noble monument of Antiquity in the whole Island, they would feel every stroke.

"[2]The eastern part of the surviving section (approximately 20 metres (66 ft) in length) is built as Broad Wall, 10 Roman Feet wide.