The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    Standing stone near Loch Ederline

    July 27, 2017

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020 /

    Tucked away in the industrial outskirts of Fort William is this gaunt fortress that once stood at the heart of Scottish power

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    Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard

    February 16, 2016

    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022

    Croft Moraig: circle of light

    January 8, 2015
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018 /

    This imposing ruin was once a fine example of Renaissance architecture - home of the 1st Protestant Bishop of Argyll and the Isles

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    Duart Castle, Isle of Mull

    September 1, 2011

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014
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"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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