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West Linton
West Linton is a town as well as civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, however considering that city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Many of its homeowners are commuters, owing to the town's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and also holds an annual conventional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also contemporary Welsh "Llyn") meaning 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 linn, indicating black pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, fortified location, or military camp (related to the modern-day English community, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of homes), as well as is seemingly appropriate, as the town appears to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this area, 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 acquired numerous centuries later on to clear up the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.