The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    Callanish: a ring to rule them all

    January 6, 2012
  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

    Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, Melrose still has an air of faded opulence

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014

    Silent voices of Arichonan

    August 8, 2018

    The Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas

    March 21, 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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