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,  Wildlife & Nature

    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022 /

    A hill fort with a spectacular view and an ancient (if rather bloodthirsty) legend

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013
  • History,  Wildlife & Nature

    Before the rain

    April 10, 2022 /

    Hidden treasures in the woods above Crinan: a carved stone, a Judgement Seat, a hill fort and the ruins of 'New York'

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    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    Loch Leven Castle

    November 16, 2014

    A walk to RĂ­ Cruin Cairn

    September 28, 2019
  • British trees,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022 /

    The tree of dark magic, whose brilliant white blossoms are among the first to appear in spring

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    The holly bears the crown

    November 26, 2013

    The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014

    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017
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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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