Visit Penicuik Places

Welcome to Visit Penicuik Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Penicuik

  

Penicuik Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Penicuik

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Penicuik history

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In 1296 Thomas Rymer’s Foedera mentions a “Walter Edgar a person of Penicok south of Edenburgh” Penicuik was the site of a prison camp for French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars (housed in the old range at Valleyfield Mill) The town became a burgh in 1867 and hosted the inaugural Grand Match in curling.

You can visit Penicuik places with Walkfo Penicuik to hear history at Penicuik’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Penicuik has 17 places to visit in our interactive Penicuik map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Penicuik, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Penicuik places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Penicuik & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 17 audio facts unique to Penicuik places in an interactive Penicuik map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Penicuik Places Map
17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Penicuik historic spots	Penicuik tourist destinations	Penicuik plaques	Penicuik geographic features
Walkfo Penicuik tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Penicuik

  

Best Penicuik places to visit

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Penicuik has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Penicuik’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Penicuik’s information audio spots:

Uttershill Castle Uttershill Castle is a ruinous 16th-century tower house, about 0.5 miles south of Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland, and west of the Black Burn. Alternative names are Utters Hill and Outters Hill Castle.

Penicuik House 18th-century palladian mansion was built on the site of an earlier house by Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet. It was destroyed by fire in 1899 and a major restoration was completed in 2014 by G Brown Stonemasons.

Carnethy Hill Carnethy Hill is a hill 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Penicuik, Scotland. It lends its name to the Carnethy 5 hill race held annually since 1971. Loganlea Reservoir lies on the Northwest flank of the hill.

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