20 Aug
Tarmac paving and driveways
Edinburgh - EH54
Enquiry from: Kamal G
Start Date: Immediate
Tarmac paving and driveways enquiry
West Linton
West Linton is a town as well as civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the region of Peeblesshire, but because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Much of its locals are travelers, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and holds an annual traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic element (cognate with the modern Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as contemporary Welsh "Llyn") implying 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 as well as linn, indicating black swimming pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, strengthened place, or armed forces camp (related to the contemporary English community, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), as well as is seemingly proper, as the village shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools and marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified possibly with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this location, 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 gotten many centuries later on to clear up the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.
