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
  • 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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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019

    Iona’s timeless haven

    February 9, 2012
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Smailholm Tower

    November 13, 2016 /

    A 'peel tower' in the Scottish Borders, basking in the autumn sunshine and remembering a colourful history of reiving

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    Croft Moraig: circle of light

    January 8, 2015

    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015 /

    Breathtaking medieval architecture… and a delicious story of a phantom wedding guest

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    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018
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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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