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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019 /

    History? Gravestones? Mysterious phenomena? Appalling weather? Time to go squelching around another ancient ruin!

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016 /

    High on the hillside above Culross Palace are the peaceful ruins of a very old monastery with links to St Mungo and St Serf

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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016 /

    Following on from my feature on the Palace of Holyroodhouse, I'm taking a wander around the Abbey, where the story began...

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    Wenlock Priory: hauntingly beautiful

    July 30, 2012

    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015
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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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