21 Feb
Plumbing
West Calder - EH55
Enquiry from: Peter M
Start Date: Immediate
Ti fix a leaking pipe from the kitchen tap. the pipe is under the sink
West Linton
West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, however because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. A number of its residents are commuters, owing to the village's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy history, as well as holds a yearly traditional event called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as 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, suggesting black pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, fortified location, or army camp (pertaining to the contemporary English town, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of residences), and is evidently ideal, as the village shows up to have been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this area, or with a regional chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired lots of centuries later on to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
