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

    St Bride’s: a history worth saving

    June 20, 2018 /

    Plans are afoot to restore this lovely old McKinlay graveyard by the River Teith

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    The Garvellachs: just below the surface

    September 1, 2013

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014

    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016
  • 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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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021
  • History

    Ellen’s Isle

    September 16, 2015 /

    This small wooded island in Loch Katrine was the refuge of Scott's heroine in 'The Lady of the Lake'

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    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017

    The Lewis Chessmen

    September 21, 2016

    Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019
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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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