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Penicuik
On the A701 lies Penicuik (pronounced 'Pennycook irrespective of its spelling), a town in Midlothian, Scotland with a population of around 15,700. Set between Edinburgh and Peebles, the settlement was constructed as a planned village in 1770 by Sir James Clerk of Penicuik, becoming a burgh in 1867. Its original regional industry were its widely known paper mills, with the last of these closing down in 2004. The town name, Penicuik, is stemmed from 'Pen Y Cog', meaning directly, 'Hill of the Cuckoo' in Ancient British. The town does have its worldwide links, and is twinned with the town of L'îsle-sur-la-Sourge in France. The first occasion of the reference of the town was in 1296. Thomas Rymer's text Foedera talks about a 'Walter Edgar a person Penicok south of Edenburgh', and is what the town's name developed from and into today's spelling. Pennycook, another step on the ladder of Penicuik's spelling evolution, appears on John Adair's map from 1862. However, in the background of the town itself, full growth commenced when the Cowan family arrived around 1770, and brought the industry of their paper mill. This brought the necessity for houses for workers, resulting in general population increasing to 1,700 by 1800. Penicuik was also used as the site of a prison camp for soldiers from the French Napoleonic wars, but in our current day, it is currently the site of a housing development. Nevertheless, a monument dated back to 1830 commemorates the 309 detainees who perished there during the years 1811-1814. For all your house upgrades, make sure to make use of respected contractors in Penicuik to make certain of quality.
