West Linton
West Linton is a town as well as civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, yet because city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. A number of its citizens are travelers, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy history, and holds an annual standard festival called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern Welsh "Llyn") meaning 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, indicating black pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "racket"), for a fortress, fortified location, or military camp (related to the contemporary English community, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), and also is seemingly proper, as the town appears to have actually been surrounded by lakes, pools and also marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified perhaps 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 acquired lots of centuries later on to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
