West Linton
West Linton is a village and civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the region of Peeblesshire, but considering that city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Most of its homeowners are travelers, owing to the town's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and holds a yearly standard celebration called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name stems from a Celtic component (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern Welsh "Llyn") suggesting a lake or pool, a pool in a river, or a channel (as in Loch Linnhe, part of which is called An Linne Dhubh, the black swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, implying black swimming pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a citadel, strengthened area, or military camp (related to the contemporary English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of houses), as well as is seemingly ideal, as the town shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At one time it was referred to as Lyntoun Roderyck, determined possibly with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this location, or with a regional 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 gotten numerous centuries later on to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.