West Linton
West Linton is a town and civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the region of Peeblesshire, yet since city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A lot of its residents are commuters, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy history, and also holds a yearly standard event called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name derives from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern-day 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 swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and also linn, suggesting black swimming pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "racket"), for a fortress, fortified area, or military camp (related to the modern-day English town, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of dwellings), and also is evidently appropriate, as the village shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area 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 acquired many centuries later to clarify the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.