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,  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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    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Carnassarie Castle in Kilmartin Glen

    April 6, 2018

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019 /

    History? Gravestones? Mysterious phenomena? Appalling weather? Time to go squelching around another ancient ruin!

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    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018
  • History

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018 /

    900 years ago, Magnus Barefoot saw this quiet harbour as a means to an end...

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    Loch Leven Castle

    November 16, 2014

    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016
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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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