The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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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    The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016

    Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s skull

    May 2, 2021

    Dunyvaig Castle, Isle of Islay

    January 9, 2012
  • 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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    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015
  • 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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    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015
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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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