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 since city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. A lot 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 lengthy history, and also holds a yearly standard festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name derives from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also modern Welsh "Llyn") suggesting 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 swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, indicating black swimming pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a citadel, fortified location, or armed forces camp (related to the contemporary English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of homes), as well as is evidently suitable, as the village shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, swimming pools and marshes. At one time it was referred to as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this location, or with a neighborhood 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 obtained several centuries later on to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.