IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Mauricewood Park, PENICUIK, EH26 0BP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Mauricewood Park, EH26 0BP by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (22 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Path off Mauricewood Road
The usual distressed spruce trees seen everywhere in 2023.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 15 Jul 2023
0.07 miles
2
Deanburn
Residential area in Penicuik.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 30 May 2005
0.08 miles
3
Path near Penicuik
Now very much suburban with new houses to the right.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 15 Jul 2023
0.09 miles
4
Path, Mauricewood
This path has come from a big area of young woodland which appears to be self seeded on former agricultural land.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 19 Apr 2016
0.09 miles
5
Bluebell Drive
Replacing any bluebells of either genus that may have been here. Expanding Penicuik
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 15 Jul 2023
0.09 miles
6
Mauricewood Miners' Memorial, off Mauricewood Road
A memorial erected in 1989 to the memory of 63 men and boys who died in a fire in the Mauricewood Pit in 1889. It was the initiative of Alan Montgomery, an ex-miner from Danderhall who became a local councillor in the area.
Image
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 27 May 2012
0.14 miles
7
Mauricewood Miners' Memorial
Memorial marking the centenary of the 'Mauricewood disaster' of 1889.
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 27 May 2012
0.14 miles
8
Names on the Mauricewood Miners' Memorial
The cost of coal in late-Victorian Penicuik. The Midlothian pits were major suppliers to Edinburgh and Leith.
Image
Image: © kim traynor
Taken: 27 May 2012
0.14 miles
9
Boyd-Orr Drive, Penicuik
A residential road off Mauricewood Road. John Boyd Orr was a former Chancellor of the University of Glasgow and Nobel Peace Prize winner, but I am not sure of the connection.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 27 Jan 2014
0.14 miles
