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,  Megalithic sites

    The Devil’s Arrows: shafts of darkness

    August 12, 2015 /

    The people who put up these standing stones in North Yorkshire were obviously thinking big - but what on earth are those grooves all about?

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    Inchbuie: an island of dreams

    January 15, 2013

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016

    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012 /

    In Glen Lonan, Argyll, an impressive standing stone is said to mark the grave of a legendary Irish hero.

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    Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013

    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012 /

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs sounds like an Irish folk group… and in a way, that's what they were! In the 6th century St Brendan and a band of adventurers set sail in search of paradise.

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    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

"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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