West Linton is a town and civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the region of Peeblesshire, yet since local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Much of its citizens are commuters, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy background, and also holds a yearly standard celebration called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old beginning. Its name derives from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern-day Welsh "Llyn") indicating 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 "hubbub"), for a fortress, strengthened area, or armed forces camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), and also is evidently ideal, as the village shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools and also marshes. At once it was referred to as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this area, or with a regional 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 acquired many centuries later on to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.