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,  Scottish castles

    Rosslyn Castle – falling shadows

    April 1, 2016 /

    Gaunt and brooding, the battered fragments of a spectacular fortress stand in the woodlands of Roslin Glen

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    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    Duart Castle, Isle of Mull

    September 1, 2011

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015 /

    The second in my two-part series about the abbey and royal palace of Dunfermline

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    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    Wenlock Priory: hauntingly beautiful

    July 30, 2012

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

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

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015 /

    A powerful king and a devoted queen: these massive walls guard a shrine that lies at the very heart of Scotland's history

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    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

"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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