West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the county of Peeblesshire, however given that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Much of its homeowners are commuters, owing to the village's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy background, and also holds a yearly standard event called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old origin. Its name originates from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also 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 also linn, indicating black swimming pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a fortress, fortified location, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), and is obviously ideal, as the village shows up to have been surrounded by lakes, pools as well as marshes. At one time it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area 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 gotten many centuries later on to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.