The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Dunnottar: the last bastion

    October 1, 2012

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

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

    August 15, 2021
  • 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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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015
  • 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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    Loch Dochart Castle

    March 5, 2015

    Loch Avich and the Castle of the Red-haired Girl

    May 14, 2016

    The Ballymeanoch stones, Kilmartin Glen

    March 13, 2016
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    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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