Waterloo monument

Standing on a hill outside the village of New Abbey is a monument to those who fought in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. A spiral staircase leads up inside the tower and from the top there are panoramic views if the surrounding countryside.

A sandstone plaque on the outside of the tower had this inscription on it :'To record the valour of those British, Belgian and Prussian soldiers who under Wellington and Blusher on the 18th of June 1815 gained the victory of Waterloo by which French tyranny was overthrown and peace restored to the world '. Strange to think that we were once at war with the French.