Penicuik House, Midlothian, Scotland
Penicuik House is located just ten miles south of Edinburgh. It's situated in beautiful, landscaped grounds, including the most wonderful curling pond which is very picturesque. The house itself is a ruin, although you can walk around the interior shell. The house was built in the 1760's and destroyed by fire in 1899. There's an excellent little cafe which is the ideal place to warm up with a coffee n' cake in the cold winter months. You can find out more about visiting the house & grounds on their website at
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Places to see in ( Penicuik - UK )
Places to see in ( Penicuik - UK )
Penicuik is a town and former burgh in Midlothian, Scotland, lying on the west bank of the River North Esk. It lies on the A701 midway between Edinburgh and Peebles, east of the Pentland Hills. The town was developed as a planned village in 1770 by Sir James Clerk of Penicuik. It became a burgh in 1867. The town was well known for its paper mills, the last of which closed in 2004. More recently the town was home to the Edinburgh Crystal works. Penicuik has two secondary schools, Penicuik High School and Beeslack Community High School. Crystal FM is the Community Radio Station serving Penicuik & S W Midlothian on 107.4
The town's name is pronounced 'Pennycook' and is derived from Pen Y Cog, meaning Hill of the Cuckoo in the Old Brythonic language (also known as Ancient British and the forerunner of modern Welsh). Penicuik is Scotland's 50th largest town and the biggest settlement in Midlothian.
Near Penicuik is Glencorse Parish Kirk, which formed part of the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1886). Some of the streets nearby are named after characters in the novel and its sequel, Catriona (1893). Penicuik is home to the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, garrisoned in Glencorse Barracks. Penicuik is twinned with the town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in France. The site of Penicuik was home to the paper mill established by Agnes Campbell in 1709. A monument in the churchyard reads 1737, Annabel Millar spouse to Thomas Rutherford Papermaker at Pennycuik.
Around 1770, the arrival of the Cowan family, and their expansion of the paper mill, led to the need for homes for their workers. The hamlet of Penicuik was expanded as a planned town (roughly based on Edinburgh's New Town) by Sir James Clerk of Penicuik, the builder of nearby Penicuik House, and by 1800 the population had risen to 1,700.
Penicuik was the site of a prison camp for French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars (housed in the old range at Valleyfield Mill). The former camp is now the site of a housing development in Valleyfield. A monument dated 1830 by the River Esk commemorates the mortal remains of 309 prisoners of war who died 1811-14. It was erected by Alexander Cowan owner of the paper mill, whose house overlooked the burial site.
Penicuik hosted the inaugural Grand Match in curling, between the north and the south of Scotland, in 1847. This took place on the high pond on the estate of Penicuik House, not the low pond which is still used for curling on rare occasions. The town became a burgh in 1867. In the oldest part of Penicuik, surrounding the town centre and to the south of the former POW camp, crossing the river Esk is Pomathorn Bridge which was once a toll bridge and the main route between Edinburgh to the north and the Scottish Borders to the south. As such Penicuik has a number of ancient traveller's inns, including The Crown, and the Royal. Because of their location on such a busy caravan route, both these public houses advertise the patronage of many characters from Scottish 18th Century history, including alleged visits from Burke and Hare and Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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Penicuik Historic Estate and Surrounding
Penicuik House is an excellent example of Palladian architecture in Scotland. Built in the 1760s however destroyed by fire in 1899, this great residence stood in ruins for over 100 years. The shell has since been restored and makes for an imaginative stroll around the bones of this once grand residence. I have tried to capture that feel in this short video.
Old Photographs Penicuik Midlothian Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Penicuik, a town and former burgh in Midlothian situated on the west bank of the River North Esk. It lies on the A701 road midway between Edinburgh and Peebles, east of the Pentland Hills. The site of Penicuik was home to the paper mill established by Agnes Campbell in 1709. Around 1770, the arrival of the Cowan family, and their expansion of the paper mill, led to the need for homes for their workers. The hamlet of Penicuik was expanded as a planned town. Papermaking is thought to have started in the area around 1709. The best firm evidence of early paper making lies in the parish cemetery, where the grave of Thomas Rutherford, dated 1735, describes him as papermaker . There were at least two established paper mills in the town. In the mid 18th century Charles Cowan, originally a grocer in Leith, established the Cowan Valleyfield Mills. In 1796, Cowan brought in his son, Alexander Cowan, to manage the mill. An adjacent corn mill was purchased in 1803, becoming known as Bank Mill after he converted it to produce the paper on which banknotes were printed. The Valleyfield Mills were used as a prisoner of war camp, mainly for French prisoners, from March 1811 until September 1814, often referred to as the Napoleonic War but more correctly at this period being the Peninsula War. Cargill Gilston Knott, was born on 30 June 1856 in Penicuik. He was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was a pioneer in seismological research. He spent his early career in Japan. He later became a Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and President of the Scottish Meteorological Society. He died at his home at 42 Upper Gray Street, Newington, Edinburgh, on 26 October 1922.
2 SCOTS - Glasgow & Penicuik Homecoming Parades 2018 [4K/UHD]
In October 2018, 2 SCOTS, The Royal Highland Fusiliers performed a series of Homecoming Parades (Penicuik, Ayr & Glasgow).
The bands were 2 SCOTS Pipe & Drums and The Royal Regiment of Scotland Band
Road Trips in Scotland - Penicuik to the Meldon Hills
A road trip from Penicuik to the Meldon Hills in the Scottish Borders in the Land Rover Discovery.
Corstorphine Vs Penicuik 07 09 19
Penicuik to Edinburgh Waverley Heavy Rail Proposal - Route D
The following is a 3D fly through of one of three proposed heavy rail route route options (Route D) linking Penicuik to Edinburgh Waverley Station. This model was created by Group F of Heriot-Watt University as part of the required GRIP 3 output of the 2016/2017 5th year Professional Design Module.
Nuclear Convoy Penicuik 20 11 2017
A convoy carrying nucelar weapons passed through Penicuik on 20 November 2017, passing right next to a Primary School in the middle of the day. These convoys, carrying Trident nuclear warheads, travel the roads of the UK regularly.
Brief Encounters Of The Penicuik Kind
mad lights above the town of penicuik UFO?!?!?
Penicuik on Parade 2019
Pipe band, horses and cars!
The Lost Garden // Short Documentary
The Lost Garden is a Penicuik community food project that aims to restore one of the once greatest walled gardens of the United Kingdom.
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Short film made by Julia Kropf, Joyce Droise and Michelle Hanzelova
195 Eskhill, Penicuik
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Scottish FA QM Penicuik Athletic FC
Celebrating the opening of the Sandford Astro pitch at Beeslack Community High School, Penicuik.
Resourcing Scotland's Heritage: Penicuik House Preservation Trust
A short video about the fundraising for Penicuik House to inspire the
participants of the 'Make it Happen' training course.
Resourcing Scotland's Heritage is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Howgate Carrier Memorial St Mungo's Church Cemetery Penicuik Midlothian Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Howgate Carrier memorial in St Mungo's Church cemetery on ancestry visit to Penicuik, Midlothian. Although a this is a memorial to James Noble and his wife Ailie, it is actually more of a memorial to the series of stories written by an eminent surgeon, Dr John Brown, the stories were called Rab and his Friends. The characters of James Noble and Ailie are based on a local cart driver John Jackson, who married a Margaret Todd in 1807, moved up to Loanstone and eventually died in 1830.
Rab was a large bull mastiff, owned by John Jackson which, after his death stopped eating , became hostile and was killed by Jackson's successor as a cart driver.
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penicuik girls in glasgow ;)
2 Scots Homecoming Parade 2018 - Penicuik [4K/UHD]
Thursday 4th October 2018 saw the first of three homecoming parades for the 2 Scots Division of The Royal Regiment of Scotland - The Royal Highland Fusiliers, through the East Lothian town of Penicuik.
Thanks to The Royal regiment of Scotland Band on Facebook for letting me have the list of tunes:
1. Both Bands - Atholl/Glendaruel Highlanders (coming out from side street)
2. 2SCOTS P&D - The Green Hills of Tyrol (A Scottish Soldier) 3:07
3. RRSB - The Great Little Army 5:51
4. Both Bands - ??? 8:01
5. 2SCOTS P&D - ??? - 11:50
6. RRSB - 79th Farewell to Gilbralter 13:34
7. RRSB - Pentland Hills 15:20
8. Both Bands - Scotland The Brave 15:53
9. 2SCOTS P&D - March off The Colours - 20:40
Please excuse the rain on the lens at the end!
Friday 05-OCT-2018 sees Ayr being the destination and Saturday 06-OCT-2018 sees Glasgow host the 2 Scots. Both 11:30am starts!
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland parades through Penicuik after Iraq tour
2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS), based at Glencorse Barracks in Penicuik, today paraded through Penicuik to mark their homecoming from six-month operational tours of Iraq, South Sudan and Cyprus. The parade was accompanied by Cruachan IV, the mascot for the Regiment, the Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Battalion and the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
In Iraq 2 SCOTS, bolstered with attached personnel from engineer and medical units, were based in four locations (Erbil and Menila in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Taji and Besmaya, both on the outskirts of Baghdad) and provided training and mentoring for Kurdish Security Forces (including Peshmerga and Police units) preparing them to lead security operations in defeat of Da’esh (ISIS). During their six-month tour in Iraq, 2 SCOTS worked alongside a vast range of European forces as well as the US Army, living in close proximity with them.