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
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    Wenlock Priory: hauntingly beautiful

    July 30, 2012

    The stones of Kilmory Oib

    May 26, 2015

    The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History,  Latest Feature

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021 /

    Is this the 'lost' chapel of St Columba, dreaming its hours and years away beside the waters of Loch Awe?

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    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019 /

    Nestling by the side of Loch Awe, this extraordinary church was the vision of 19th century architect Walter Douglas Campbell

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    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019
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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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