What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: Governor's Tree. Site of the Governor's Tree, where important visitors to Tynemouth were met as they disembarked in Pow Burn. These visitors included King Charles I in 1633 and King Henry VIII's commissioners, when they came to dispossess the monks of Tynemouth Priory in 1539. Recorded plaque organisation: North Tyneside Council.

King Charles I of England (1625-1649) was a monarch whose rule was marked by conflicts with Parliament, leading to the English Civil War. His execution in 1649 made him the only British monarch to be publicly tried and executed for treason, significantly altering the course of British constitutional history.

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