West Linton
West Linton is a village as well as civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the region of Peeblesshire, yet since city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Most of its homeowners are commuters, owing to the town's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north east. West Linton has a lengthy background, as well as holds a yearly standard celebration called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient beginning. Its name derives from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and contemporary Welsh "Llyn") suggesting 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 swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and also linn, indicating black pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a fortress, strengthened location, or military camp (pertaining to the modern English community, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of residences), as well as is evidently suitable, as the town shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools and marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified perhaps with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this area, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic kind of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained several centuries later on to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
