The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017 /

    There's nothing romantic about this castle on the Firth of Forth: armed to the teeth, with walls 18 feet thick, Blackness was once a power to be reckoned with

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    Clach na Carraig or Diarmid’s Pillar

    March 2, 2012

    St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

    February 7, 2014
  • Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017 /

    Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, Melrose still has an air of faded opulence

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    Keills Chapel: shadows of time

    April 5, 2015

    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    May 20, 2015

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016
  • The Palace of Holyroodhouse

    January 20, 2016 /

    At one end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile is this sumptuous palace, with a jaw-dropping list of royal occupants and a rather blood-stained history...

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 2): pride of kings

    November 18, 2015

    Dunstaffnage Castle: defiant to the last

    July 17, 2015

    Mons Meg: a damsel of destruction

    December 8, 2015
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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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