Wooden Decking in West Linton

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, however considering that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Most of its citizens are commuters, owing to the town's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long background, and also holds an annual traditional celebration called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of ancient beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic component (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern-day Welsh "Llyn") implying 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, meaning black swimming pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a fortress, strengthened place, or army camp (pertaining to the contemporary English community, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of homes), and also is obviously suitable, as the village shows up to have been surrounded by lakes, pools as well as marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined probably 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 name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic kind of Roderick. The prefix "West" was gotten several centuries later to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.