The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Doune Castle: seat of power

    July 30, 2014 /

    Is this my favourite castle yet? (It might just take the medieval biscuit!) The setting for 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and now the new 'Outlander' series, Doune Castle is a delight to explore!

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    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016

    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022

    Walking to the Field of the Heads

    July 10, 2018
  • A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014 /

    What was the exciting sport enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots? And just how did I end up playing it myself?

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    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018
  • Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014 /

    Sitting on the quiet main street of Falkland in Fife is one of the most remarkable Scottish castles, brainchild of the brilliant but ill-fated Stewart kings

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    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017
    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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