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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    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015

    In a nutshell: ‘The Curse of Scotland’

    March 15, 2014

    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022
  • History

    Looking for the yew of Easragan

    May 20, 2019 /

    The quiet shores of Loch Etive have an age-old connection with bow-makers and Bannockburn

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    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    Carnbane Castle and a banquet for a bard

    February 16, 2016

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017 /

    In this mossy graveyard close to Loch Feochan, many generations of MacDougalls have been laid to rest

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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 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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