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

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015 /

    Sitting in a loop of the River Forth within sight of Stirling Castle, this quiet place has witnessed some key moments in Scotland's history

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    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Kilmory Knap Chapel – part one

    June 22, 2013
  • History,  Scottish castles

    The value of Stirling

    December 8, 2013 /

    Forbidding and silent, Stirling Castle stands on a natural clifftop overlooking the River Forth. Battles have raged below its ramparts, and murders have taken place within its walls. Let's go inside and have a look!

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    Castle Stalker: plenty to brood on

    August 16, 2012

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    Glen More and the headless horseman

    May 16, 2015

"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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