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,  Latest Feature

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021 /

    Is this the 'lost' chapel of St Columba, dreaming its hours and years away beside the waters of Loch Awe?

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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019
  • History,  Latest Feature

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020 /

    Are the ships of a king's fleet immortalised in these curious carvings on the Isle of Luing?

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    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016

    The mystery of the Kilchoan Cross

    February 27, 2013
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019 /

    Memories of Viking longships haunt this tiny island of windswept sandy bays and cryptic stones

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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017
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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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