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
  • 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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    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 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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    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    Culloden: field of sorrow

    January 23, 2017
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015 /

    Sitting in a loop of the River Forth within sight of Stirling Castle, this quiet place has witnessed some key moments in Scotland's history

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    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015

    Tullibardine Chapel

    September 1, 2016

"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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