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West Linton

West Linton is a village and civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the area of Peeblesshire, but because city 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 kilometres) to the north east. West Linton has a lengthy background, as well as holds an annual traditional event called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name derives from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern Welsh "Llyn") indicating 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 pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), 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 homes), and is evidently proper, as the town appears to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools as well as marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area 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 kind of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired lots of centuries later to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.