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Penicuik

Penicuik is in a town in 10 miles south of . It's mostly commuterland for the city, with a population of 16,200 in 2016. It has an army base and is close to the scenic Pentland Hills.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Penicuik Town Hall and Uttershill Castle.

Town hall
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, formerly the Cowan Institute, is a municipal building in the High Street, Penicuik, , Scotland. The structure, which was the meeting place of Penicuik Burgh Council, is a Category C listed building.

Castle
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a ruinous 16th-century tower house, about 0.5 miles south of Penicuik, , , south of the river North Esk, and west of the Black Burn. Alternative names are Utters Hill and Outtershill Castle.

Church
Photo: Dawatters, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Auchendinny and Silverburn.

Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in Glencorse near Penicuik, , Scotland. The village had a paper mill at Dalmore, until its closure in 2005. This was Midlothian's last remaining papermill and after demolition is now the site of new home development.

Hamlet
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is a small hamlet near Penicuik, in , south-east . It has a small community centre, with a garden surrounding the hall, which featured on the BBC Television programme The Beechgrove Garden in June 2008.

Hamlet
is a village in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located two miles north of Penicuik on the Glencorse Burn and gets its name from the bridge crossing.

Penicuik

Latitude
55.8272° or 55° 49′ 38″ north
Longitude
-3.2218° or 3° 13′ 19″ west
Population
15,900
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PCU
Open location code
9C7RRQGH+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30228760
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640465
Wiki­data ID
Q1011428
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Penicuik” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Penicuik”
  • Basque: “Penicuik”
  • Bengali: “পেনিকুইক”
  • Cebuano: “Penicuik”
  • Chinese: “佩尼库克”
  • Chinese: “佩尼庫克”
  • Dutch: “Penicuik”
  • Finnish: “Penicuik”
  • French: “Penicuik”
  • German: “Penicuik”
  • Gujarati: “પેનિકુઈક”
  • Hebrew: “פיניקויק”
  • Irish: “Peighinn na Cuthaig”
  • Italian: “Penicuik”
  • Japanese: “ペニキュ”
  • Japanese: “ペニキュイック”
  • Japanese: “ペニクイク”
  • Japanese: “ペニクイック”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆನಿಕ್ಯುಕ್”
  • Korean: “페니쿠크”
  • Lithuanian: “Penikiukas”
  • Persian: “پنیکوک”
  • Polish: “Penicuik”
  • Portuguese: “Penicuik”
  • Russian: “Пеникуик”
  • Scots: “Penicuik”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peighinn na Cuthaig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peighinn na Cuthaige”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Penicuik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنیکوک”
  • Spanish: “Penicuik”
  • Swedish: “Penicuik”
  • Tamil: “பென்னிகுவிக்”
  • Telugu: “పెనికుక్”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенік’юїк”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенікюїк”
  • Urdu: “پینیکویک”
  • Welsh: “Pen y Gog”
  • Welsh: “Penicuik”
  • “Peighinn na Cuthaig”
  • “Penicuik”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Penicuik”. Photo: YOGAN, CC BY-SA 3.0.