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,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

    January 23, 2022 /

    History and folklore are interwoven in this crumbling but evocative ruin

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    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015
  • History,  Latest Feature

    Castle Dounie

    March 26, 2021 /

    Breathtaking views from this Iron Age hill fort in Knapdale

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    Rosslyn Castle – falling shadows

    April 1, 2016

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016

    The stone circles of Fortingall

    May 11, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History,  Latest Feature

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021 /

    Is this the 'lost' chapel of St Columba, dreaming its hours and years away beside the waters of Loch Awe?

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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 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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