Soffits & Fascias in West Linton

West Linton

West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the county of Peeblesshire, but because city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A lot of its homeowners are commuters, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy background, and holds an annual traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old origin. Its name stems from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and 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 pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, suggesting black pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "racket"), for a citadel, fortified location, or armed forces camp (related to the contemporary English community, by way of the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of residences), and is obviously suitable, as the village shows up to have been surrounded by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, determined probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this location, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic kind of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained many centuries later to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.