The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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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    Athelstaneford – a dovecot, an elusive battle, and the legend of Scotland’s flag

    August 14, 2014

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

    November 22, 2019

    The stone circles of Fortingall

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

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016 /

    This extraordinary church was the vision of one man - William St Clair - and mystery seems to ooze out of its walls

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    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015

    "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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