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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    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    St Fillan and Glen Dochart

    July 31, 2011

    The Fairy Flag of Dunvegan

    August 7, 2013
  • 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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    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019

    Torphichen Preceptory – stone-cold but compelling

    April 15, 2015

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014
  • 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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    In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023

    Caisteal nan Coin Duibh – ‘the Castle of the Black Dogs’

    February 11, 2018

    Dunchraigaig: the darkness of time

    October 18, 2013
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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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