West Linton
West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the area of Peeblesshire, but considering that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Most of its residents are travelers, owing to the village's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north east. West Linton has a long history, as well as holds an annual traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old beginning. Its name stems from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the contemporary 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 as well as linn, meaning black pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, strengthened location, or armed forces camp (related to the modern-day English town, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of dwellings), and also is evidently appropriate, as the town shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools and marshes. At once it was referred to as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this area, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained many centuries later to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
