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A residential area, north of the town centre. Carnethy Hill in the Pentlands in the background.
©Richard Webb
Penicuik fire station, 2 Loanburn Avenue, Penicuik, Lothian & Borders
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.1km<br/>The first part of this small shopping centre was built to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, The site it occupies had been a housing estate called Shottstown. This had been provided for the employees of the Shotts Iron Company, which mined iron stone and coal until the pit closed after a disastrous fire in 1889.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.1km<br/>The footpath through the park is named l'Isle sur la Sorgue Way after Penicuik's twin town in the south of France.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>This concrete facility was built in 2007 and is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the eastern end of the public park. It is much used and extensively "decorated".
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>This pavilion is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the south-east side of Penicuik's public park.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>This pitch is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the eastern end of the park. The photograph is taken between the upright bars of the metal fence which surrounds the pitch and its viewing area allowing entry to be controlled.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.3km<br/>This fencing between Penicuik Athletic JFC's pavilion and football pitch includes gates that can be swung across the public path to isolate the pitch yet allow the players to pass through from the pavilion.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.3km<br/>This pavilion is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the south-east side of Penicuik's public park.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.3km<br/>John Street is on the A701 Edinburgh - Dumfries route, so carries both local and longer-distance traffic. The hill in the background is Castlelaw in the Pentlands.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This MUSA is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the south-east side end of the public park. The courts are most clearly laid out for basket-ball.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Sacred Heart Church in Penicuik.
©Andreas Wilhelm
Dist:0.4km<br/>The old church was built as a chapel school in 1882 to serve the new parish established in that year. The curved roof of the new extension built in 1982 is of an unusual and striking parabolic-hyperbolic design.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.4km<br/>This facility is located together with a number of other sports facilities at the south-east side of the park. A plaque attached to the fence proclaims that it was opened on 1 November.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated at the end of the town's small pedestrianized shopping street.
©michael ely

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