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

    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015 /

    No one could ever accuse James II of being under-equipped. Take a look at the ultimate in big boys' toys...

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    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014

    In a nutshell: Cardoness Castle

    February 13, 2016

    The road to Loch Avich

    October 6, 2018
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Falkland Palace: power and glory

    June 5, 2014 /

    Sitting on the quiet main street of Falkland in Fife is one of the most remarkable Scottish castles, brainchild of the brilliant but ill-fated Stewart kings

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    Clan MacThomas and the Clach na Coileach

    March 30, 2015

    Dunyvaig Castle, Isle of Islay

    January 9, 2012

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 2014
  • History

    In a nutshell: the Linlithgow Palace fountain

    May 14, 2014 /

    This ornate fountain welcomed Mary of Guise, bride of James V, to her new home; and in 1745 it flowed with wine in the presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie!

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    Rock art at Cairnbaan

    June 28, 2020

    St Fillan and Glen Dochart

    July 31, 2011

    Killiecrankie: haunted by memories

    January 13, 2014
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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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