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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    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 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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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    Greadal Fhinn – a chambered cairn and a Norse burial

    July 16, 2019

    Looking at brochs

    July 18, 2014
  • 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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    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017
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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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