View from the Tower.

High up above the village of New Abbey and the beautiful ruins of the Cistercian Sweetheart Abbey, rearing over the trees, stands the 1815 Waterloo Monument. Standing 150 feet in height on Peniel Heugh (itself being 744 ft), it was erected by the Marquess of Lothian, “To record the valour of those British, Belgian and Prussian soldiers who under Wellington and Blucher on the 18th June 1816 gained the victory of Waterloo by which French tyranny was overthrown and peace restored to the world.”
Around the base of the monument are the remains of two much earlier fortifications, one being from the Iron Age, the latter from the Dark Ages.
Lock Kinder and the Nith Estuary can be seen in the distance.
Extra picture the tower itself