The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Tantallon – a ring of truth?

    February 1, 2015 /

    While I was writing about Tantallon Castle, I got sidetracked by an alluring story...

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    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 2015

    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019
  • Tantallon Castle: symbol of strength

    January 27, 2015 /

    The ancient seat of the Douglas Earls of Angus, Tantallon Castle tells a story of power, violence and treason. Most visitors didn't bring a picnic - they brought guns!

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    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018

    Loch Leven Castle

    November 16, 2014
  • St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014 /

    I'm fast discovering that North Berwick is a town with a long history - and some of it is hidden in full view! Take, for example, this bijou whitewashed building on the sea front...

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014
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    New book

    "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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