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,  Latest Feature,  Scottish castles

    Inverlochy Castle

    October 24, 2020 /

    Tucked away in the industrial outskirts of Fort William is this gaunt fortress that once stood at the heart of Scottish power

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    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019
  • History

    Looking for the yew of Easragan

    May 20, 2019 /

    The quiet shores of Loch Etive have an age-old connection with bow-makers and Bannockburn

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    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    A bridge to the past in the Sma’ Glen

    April 12, 2013
  • 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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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 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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