Thermal Blinds in West Linton

West Linton

West Linton is a village and also civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, however because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Many of its homeowners are travelers, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north east. West Linton has a long history, and also holds an annual standard event called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old origin. Its name derives from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern-day Welsh "Llyn") meaning a lake or pool, a pool in a river, or a channel (as in Loch Linnhe, part of which is called An Linne Dhubh, the black pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, suggesting black swimming pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "racket"), for a fortress, strengthened location, or military camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of houses), and is seemingly appropriate, as the village shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined perhaps with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this area, or with a regional chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired several centuries later to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.