The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

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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    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014
  • 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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    Clava Cairns

    February 25, 2017

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015 /

    The second in my two-part series about the abbey and royal palace of Dunfermline

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    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 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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