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,  Latest Feature

    Alexander II and the ‘ghosts’ of his galleys

    August 18, 2020 /

    Are the ships of a king's fleet immortalised in these curious carvings on the Isle of Luing?

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    Richard of York gave battle…

    September 30, 2012

    Castle Sween: still watching for the sails

    June 13, 2013

    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016
  • 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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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Kelso Abbey: piety and pride

    March 11, 2012

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017 /

    In this mossy graveyard close to Loch Feochan, many generations of MacDougalls have been laid to rest

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    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 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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