Guildymuir Pendicle

In Crombie Country Park with my walking group, on a wet morning.

According to the information board, a pendicle was a type of smallholding sited along a main track between farms on marginal and wast ground. It was leased to a sub-tenant who combined subsistence farming with part-time employment.

A hard life, apparently. One tenant died a pauper in 1851. His son, Hairy Nicoll, was employed by two nearby farms as a ploughman, and then became a roadman.