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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

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

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    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015
  • 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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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013

    St Conan’s Kirk

    June 27, 2019

    St Bride’s revisited

    September 18, 2015
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015 /

    Sitting in a loop of the River Forth within sight of Stirling Castle, this quiet place has witnessed some key moments in Scotland's history

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    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 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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