The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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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    Loch Leven Castle

    November 16, 2014

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015
  • 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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    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 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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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 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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