Fencing in West Linton

West Linton

West Linton is a village and civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the region of Peeblesshire, but since city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Much of its homeowners are travelers, owing to the village's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy history, and also holds an annual typical festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name stems from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and contemporary 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 as well as linn, implying black pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "cacophony"), for a citadel, strengthened location, or army camp (related to the modern English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of homes), and is seemingly appropriate, as the village appears to have been bordered by lakes, swimming pools and also marshes. At once it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this area, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired many centuries later to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.