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
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    The island of Gigha

    May 12, 2019 /

    Memories of Viking longships haunt this tiny island of windswept sandy bays and cryptic stones

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Wenlock Priory: hauntingly beautiful

    July 30, 2012

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018
  • History

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018 /

    900 years ago, Magnus Barefoot saw this quiet harbour as a means to an end...

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    Looking for the Rock of the Dead

    April 15, 2018

    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    An old graveyard near Callander

    September 9, 2014
  • History

    Walking to the Field of the Heads

    July 10, 2018 /

    A secluded bay, a boggy field, and an ancient battle remembered only in a place-name...

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    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

    Fountains Abbey: from simplicity to splendour

    March 10, 2013

    Two old arches and a warning in stone

    July 29, 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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