At the western end of the village, looking towards the hills of Shorncliffe Camp,
stands a statue of Lieut. General Sir John Moore, who was killed at Corunna in 1809.
As Commandant at Shorncliffe in 1803-5 he was largely responsible for the training
of the new light infantry then beginning to replace cavalry. . . his mother and sister
lived for time at York Cottage in Castle Road.
One of the most controversial figures in English history, John Moore, was born in
Glasgow on the 13 November 1761, the son of a doctor descended from the Muires of
Rowallen and on his mothers's side from the Earls of Kinnoull.