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,  Scottish castles

    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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    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014
  • 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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    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Kilmore – a quiet chapter

    June 2, 2013

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015
  • 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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    Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016

    Richard of York gave battle…

    September 30, 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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