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

    Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017 /

    Remembering a fateful day in Scotland's history, this is one of the most evocative places I've ever been

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    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    Finding the Faery Isles

    October 27, 2019
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014 /

    A place as picturesque as this little chapel at the foot of Glen Coe has just got to have an interesting past!

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012
  • History

    In a nutshell: the Linlithgow Palace fountain

    May 14, 2014 /

    This ornate fountain welcomed Mary of Guise, bride of James V, to her new home; and in 1745 it flowed with wine in the presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie!

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    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

    Loch Dochart Castle

    March 5, 2015

    Looking at crannogs

    April 21, 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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