The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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

Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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Looking for a fairy portal

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A walk to Barnakill

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Honeysuckle

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Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

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The deer stone

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  • 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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    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014

    Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on

    August 16, 2012
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021 /

    What's so special about this rocky hillside on the shore of Loch Sween?

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    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015

    Winchester’s Round Table: inspired by a legend

    July 2, 2013
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Solstice greetings

    December 20, 2021 /

    Warmest wishes for the festive season, and looking forward to the New Year

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    The Dark Green Fritillary

    November 5, 2013

    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020
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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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