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
  • 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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    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 2015

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013
  • History,  Latest Feature

    Dunaverty and St Columba’s Footprints

    November 29, 2020 /

    A tangle of history and legend at the very tip of Kintyre

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    Iona: an island beyond words

    January 16, 2014

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 2015
  • 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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    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
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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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