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,  Latest Feature

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020 /

    Are the ships of a king's fleet immortalised in these curious carvings on the Isle of Luing?

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    Innerpeffray: Scotland's oldest free lending library

    August 14, 2016

    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019 /

    History? Gravestones? Mysterious phenomena? Appalling weather? Time to go squelching around another ancient ruin!

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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014 /

    An ancient stronghold overlooking the Sound of Mull... infused in its ivy-clad walls is an irresistible legend.

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    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019

    An old story of Craignish

    February 4, 2020

    The Watchman Stone

    September 22, 2020
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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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