Damp Proofing in West Linton

West Linton

West Linton is a village and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the county of Peeblesshire, but considering that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Most of its citizens are commuters, owing to the village's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and holds an annual traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name derives from a Celtic element (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also contemporary Welsh "Llyn") indicating a lake or pool, a pool in a river, or a network (as in Loch Linnhe, part of which is called An Linne Dhubh, the black swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and also linn, implying black swimming pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, fortified place, or army camp (related to the contemporary English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of dwellings), as well as is seemingly appropriate, as the town appears to have actually been surrounded by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined possibly with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this location, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic form of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained several centuries later to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.