This monument, is on a back road between the B996 Kinross to Kelty Road (the former Great North Road & A90) and Ballingry. At first glance it is a strange place to site a memorial except that it was situated on what was the main route north from Edinburgh before road improvements in the late 1800s and it also "improved the view" from nearby Blairadam House, home of the Adam Family a very notable dynasty of Scottish architects.

The queen and her entourage were on their way north from Edinburgh, they crossed from the port of Leith by ferry, landing at Kinghorn, then as usual made their way inland to turn north, to go through Kinross and Glenfarg to Perth. The Earl of Rothes intended on capturing the Queen, to presumably make her see his kind of sense, however she was warned in advance and missed the trap.

During the "Enlightenment" when it was the vogue to romanticise about history, the Adam family erected this monument in the form of a land-bridge, panels on the bridge depict the incident in verse. Today, the transcription of the event can be read from two plaques under the archway, as the original stone inscriptions are badly eroded.

The Paren Well, from which this monument takes it name can be found a short distance down the farm track opposite the monument, on the left hand side before the old railway. I was prevented from taking a picture of the well due to the high grass and cow pats.

The monument.

Two hundred yards further on from the Parenwell there is a plaque in a wall, which relates to a legal action "of much curiosity" by Sir Michael Malcolm in the Court of Session. This building is on the site of "The Binns" where Squire Meldrum lived when he was Sheriff-Depute of Fife and Kinross.

Much curiosity plaque