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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST MONGO'S WELL St. [Saint] Mongo's Well Revd. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuik
John Cowan Esq Valleyfield
This well is in the garden attached to Penicuik Manse & is of some antiquity. it is said the parish was once called St. [Saint] Mongo's. the well is now covered over but the water from it runs into a cistern which is within the walls of a ruin immediately south of it.
SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT (French Prisoners of War) [Valleyfield] Monument Revd. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuik
John Cowan Esq Valleyfield
018 A stone monument embellished with doric ornaments within the ornamental grounds of Valleyfield, it was erected by certain of the inhabitants to the memory of 309 prisoners of war who were interred near the spot from 1811 to 1813.

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List of Names collected by 2nd Corpl [Corporal] Mechan RSM [Royal Sappers and Miners]
Plan 18A Trace 3
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