West Linton
West Linton is a village and also civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the area of Peeblesshire, but because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Many of its citizens are commuters, owing to the village's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy history, as well as holds a yearly traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name originates from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also contemporary Welsh "Llyn") implying 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 pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, meaning black swimming pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, fortified location, or armed forces camp (related to the modern English town, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of homes), and also is seemingly suitable, as the village shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified possibly with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this location, or with a local 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 gotten numerous centuries later to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.
