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

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

    August 14, 2014 /

    What is an English-sounding name like Athelstaneford doing in eastern Scotland? And what does it have to do with our national flag?

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    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014 /

    The arrival of some very precious relics on the shore of Fife inspired the building of a wonderful church, and helped to forge the identity of Scotland...

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    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014

"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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