West Linton
West Linton is a village and civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the area of Peeblesshire, yet because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A number of its locals are travelers, owing to the town's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long background, as well as holds an annual traditional event called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic component (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern Welsh "Llyn") indicating 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 the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hubbub"), for a citadel, strengthened place, or military camp (related to the modern-day English community, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of houses), and is evidently ideal, as the village shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, pools and marshes. At one time it was known as Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this location, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic form of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired numerous centuries later on to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
