West Linton
West Linton is a town as well as civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the area of Peeblesshire, however because city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. A number of its residents are travelers, owing to the village's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north east. West Linton has a long background, and also holds an annual typical celebration called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old origin. Its name originates from a Celtic element (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also contemporary 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 pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and also linn, indicating black pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "racket"), for a citadel, fortified location, or armed forces camp (pertaining to the contemporary English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of dwellings), and is evidently ideal, as the village appears to have actually been surrounded by lakes, pools as well as marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this area, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained lots of centuries later on to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
