The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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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    Castle Dounie

    March 26, 2021

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Loch Nell: the Tomb of the Giants and a Serpent Mound

    July 26, 2019
  • History,  Latest Feature,  Wildlife & Nature

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021 /

    What's so special about this rocky hillside on the shore of Loch Sween?

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    History by the roadside: Duncan Cameron’s Cairn

    July 7, 2012

    Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013

    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Solstice greetings

    December 20, 2021 /

    Warmest wishes for the festive season, and looking forward to the New Year

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    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014

    A walk to Barnakill

    October 9, 2021

    A December walk through Ballachuan hazel wood

    December 7, 2020
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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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