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

    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018 /

    How much history is held in a place-name? Quite a lot, if this story attached to a rock on the shore of Loch Feochan is to be believed...

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    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011

    The Watchman Stone

    September 22, 2020
  • History

    Dunadd: behold the king!

    June 14, 2015 /

    This low rocky hill in the south of Kilmartin Glen was once the setting for royal ceremonies that shaped the history of Scotland

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    A little chapel in Ballachulish

    May 19, 2014

    Jedburgh Abbey

    October 1, 2015

    Prehistoric rock art at Achnabreck

    April 5, 2016
  • History

    Glen Lonan: ‘The Road of the Kings’

    March 24, 2014 /

    What links this quiet glen in Argyll with the sacred island of Iona? The answer lies in the passing of Scotland's kings...

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    Ardchattan: in the footsteps of St Baodan

    March 25, 2016

    Kintraw’s lonely watcher

    June 19, 2014

    Fraser’s Bridge in Glen Clunie

    October 4, 2013
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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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