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
  • History

    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 2015 /

    There's something about old bridges, especially when they are left marooned in the past, like this one in Glen Kinglas. And a hermit who lived here? What more do you need?

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    The Lewis Chessmen

    September 21, 2016

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014
  • History

    Fraser’s Bridge in Glen Clunie

    October 4, 2013 /

    Surrounded by glorious mountains, this lovely little bridge carries an old military road over the Clunie Water.

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    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    Dunadd: behold the king!

    June 14, 2015
  • History

    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013 /

    Built by General Wade, this beautiful little bridge is hidden deep in a Perthshire glen - but it has seen some of Scotland's darkest and most joyful moments.

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    Dowsing at Torphichen and Cairnpapple

    July 10, 2015

    Culross Palace: glowing with splendour

    June 14, 2016

    Looking at crannogs

    April 21, 2014

"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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