West Linton
West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the region of Peeblesshire, yet because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A number of its residents are travelers, owing to the village's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long background, as well as holds an annual conventional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name originates from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and contemporary 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 swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, meaning black pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a citadel, strengthened place, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), and is evidently proper, as the village shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, identified possibly with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this area, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic form of Roderick. The prefix "West" was gotten lots of centuries later on to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.