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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016 /

    This extraordinary church was the vision of one man - William St Clair - and mystery seems to ooze out of its walls

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    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    Culross Abbey

    July 29, 2016

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Mary’s Church, Grandtully

    December 15, 2015 /

    Looking like nothing more than a cow byre from the outside, this old church holds an unexpected treasure

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    Holyrood Abbey

    January 24, 2016
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow

    February 4, 2015 /

    Sitting right next to Linlithgow Palace, for centuries St Michael's Church has welcomed Scotland's kings to worship under its roof.

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    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

"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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