Ravensnook Castle, an old baronial fortalice in Penicuik parish, Edinburghshire, on the right bank of the North Esk, opposite Penicuik House. It belonged to Oliver Sinclair, commander-in-chief of the forces in the time of James V., and it is now reduced to fragmentary ruins.
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