Penicuik
Penicuik is a Town in the county of Midlothian.
Penicuik postcode: EH26 8LE
There are great places to visit near Penicuik.
Penicuik History
There are some historic monuments around Penicuik:
- Lawhead Hill,fort 630m NNW of Lawhead Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1173
- Newbigging,enclosure 400m WNW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6264
- Old Woodhouselee Castle Secular: castle SM5607
- Craiglockhart Castle Secular: castle SM1198
- Jeffries Corse,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM3527
- Mountmarle,cairn 260m SW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM1159
- Upper Whitfield,enclosures 375m SE and 350m ESE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: enclosed cremation cemetery SM4624
- Northshield Rings,fort,The Camps Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM731
- Old Deepsykehead,long cairn 910m NE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn SM2789
- Liberton, standing stone, E end of Ravenswood Avenue Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1156
- Bents Quarry, lime kilns and quarry Industrial: mines, quarries SM6065
- Camp Hill, fort 300m N of Braidwood Bridge Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1163
- Ravensneuk Castle Secular: tower SM5609
- Galachlaw,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM3988
- Rosslyn Castle, Roslin Secular: garden SM1208
- Uttershill Castle Secular: castle SM5063
- Wester Craiglockhart Hill, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3193
- St Mary's Chapel,chapel 250m ENE of Mount Lothian Ecclesiastical: chapel SM6333
- The Gowk Stane Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1157
- Dreghorn Woods training trenches, 425m WSW and 350m SW of Redford Bridge, Edinburgh 20th Century Military and Related: Pits, trenches (defensive) SM13717
- Newbigging,enclosure 400m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6265
- Glenkevock,enclosure 400m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6263
- Old Deepsykehead,enclosed cremation cemetery 270m SSE of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: enclosed cremation cemetery SM2678
- Caerketton Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4067
- Baberton Mains,enclosure 400m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6190
- Harlaw, enclosure 300m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6188
- Liberton Battery, anti-aircraft battery 100m E of Liberton Kennels 20th Century Military and Related: Battery SM13607
- Midfield House,settlement 200m ENE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM6239
- Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art; Secular: cave SM6825
- Howlet's House,towerhouse and enclosures Ecclesiastical: chapel; Secular: enclosure SM5682
- Castlelaw, fort and souterrain 205m NNW of 20th Century Military and Related: Fort; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: souterrain, earth-house SM90064
- Hanging Stanes,gallows bases,Braid Road Secular: gallows, gibbet SM5884
- Rosslyn Chapel, burial ground, buried remains of nave and remains of St Matthew Ecclesiastical: church SM6458
- Clubbiedean Reservoir, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6635
- Rullion Green,stone circle Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring SM2147
- Caiy Stane,standing stone,Fairmilehead Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1155
- Caerketton Craigs,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4118
- Brunston Castle Secular: castle SM1192
- Dundreich,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2777
- Colinton Castle Secular: house SM1197
- Castlelaw Range, ring ditch NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM6446
- Penicuik,St Kentigern's Church & Clerk Mausoleum Ecclesiastical: church; Secular: mausoleum SM2145
- Blackford Hill, fort and settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5818
- Castle Knowe, palisaded enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM6447
- Carnethy Hill,cairn,Silverburn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM1152
History of Penicuik
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”.
