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

    Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017 /

    Remembering a fateful day in Scotland's history, this is one of the most evocative places I've ever been

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    Iona: an island beyond words

    January 16, 2014

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013

    Fraser’s Bridge in Glen Clunie

    October 4, 2013

    A folk tale, a battlefield, and a witch’s leap

    July 19, 2020
  • History

    Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014 /

    Over 300 years ago, the Pass of Killiecrankie was the setting for a desperate battle in the first Jacobite uprising. Visitors may still experience a sense of sorrow - and perhaps more besides...

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    Remembering the magic of mistletoe

    December 8, 2019

    The Watchman Stone

    September 22, 2020

    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012
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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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