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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018 /

    Plans are afoot to restore this lovely old McKinlay graveyard by the River Teith

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    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
  • History

    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018 /

    With sweeping views across the sea from the Craignish peninsula, this hill fort seems to be half-immersed in legend

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    A morning in Kilmartin Glen

    March 17, 2018

    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015

    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016
  • History,  Megalithic sites

    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017 /

    Rays from the midwinter sunset filter into the deep heart of these passage graves, built 4,000 years ago in northern Scotland

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    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Callanish: a ring to rule them all

    January 6, 2012

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 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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