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

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016 /

    Following on from my feature on the Palace of Holyroodhouse, I'm taking a wander around the Abbey, where the story began...

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    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    Kilberry: sculptured stones and an enduring mystery

    November 17, 2013

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012
  • History,  Scottish castles

    The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Burnet rose

    July 12, 2021

    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013

    Temple Wood stone circles, Kilmartin Glen

    April 25, 2016
  • History

    World’s End Close, Edinburgh

    October 10, 2014 /

    World's End Close: it sounds like a prophecy of doom! And this dark close that leads off Edinburgh's Royal Mile can certainly tell a few stories...

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    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014

    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018
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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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