
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cenotaph
- District
- Midlothian
- Town
- Penicuik
- County
- Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
- Ceremony
- Unknown
Date: 1830
Attended by: Undefined - Rededicated
Date: 14 July 2002
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Unknown
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 53630
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Current location
Forms the centrepiece of the new housing estate which has replaced the old paper mill
Valleyfield Mills
Bellerophon Drive
Penicuik
Midlothian
Lothian
EH26 8NU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NT 23777 59939
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Cenotaph in form of a large sarcophagus on a large swept-in base.
- Inscription
- THE MORTAL REMAINS OF/ 309 PRISONERS OF WAR/ WHO DIED IN THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD/ BETWEEN 21ST MARCH 1811 AND 26TH JULY 1814/ ARE INTERRED NEAR THIS SPOT/ GRATA QUIES PATRIAE SED ET OMNES TERRA SEPULCHRIM/ CERTAIN INHABITANTS OF THIS PARISH DESIRING TO REMEMBER/ THAT ALL MEN ARE BRETHREN CAUSED THIS MONUMENT/ TO BE ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1830
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1814)
- Components
- Cenotaph
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Cenotaph
- Condition
- History
- 2002: Monument renovated
- Costs
Comments: Erected by Alexander Cowan, owner of Valleyfield Mills.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND by GIFFORD, JOHN 382/1978 Source: Image Library
- Leaflet guide published by Midlothian Council
- Midlothian Advertiser 18 July 2002
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