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

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015 /

    In the 13th century, no one approached Dunstaffnage Castle without a very good reason. It still fills you with a sense of awe...

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    A sport for kings at Falkland Palace

    June 7, 2014

    Before the rain

    April 10, 2022

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015 /

    Peaceful woodlands enclose this little church on the coast of Argyll; but in December 1462 a wedding here was about to turn into a funeral...

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    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Dunkeld Cathedral: Scotland’s sacred heart

    January 10, 2014

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012
  • Carved crosses,  Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014 /

    Tucked away along the tranquil shores of Loch Etive is this lovely little ruin, with a long history and an impressive medieval cross

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    Inveraray Cross

    August 30, 2013

    From Arichonan to Kilmory Oib

    August 20, 2018

    Treasures in a Knapdale wood

    May 29, 2021

"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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