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

    Ghosts of St Andrews

    October 17, 2014 /

    A spooky tour of St Andrews, where it seems that every street and every building has its own spectral inhabitant. Would you wander around here after dark? I'm not sure I would!

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    Nether Largie: secrets in stone

    October 2, 2013

    The secrets of St Cormac

    November 5, 2018

    Seacliff beach and the UK’s smallest harbour

    October 21, 2014
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Andrews: the glorious Cathedral

    March 20, 2014 /

    Continuing my exploration of St Andrews, I'm now looking at the ruins of its spectacular medieval Cathedral...

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    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Iona’s timeless haven

    February 9, 2012
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014 /

    The arrival of some very precious relics on the shore of Fife inspired the building of a wonderful church, and helped to forge the identity of Scotland...

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    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part two

    June 25, 2013

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

"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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