West Linton
West Linton is a town as well as civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the region of Peeblesshire, yet given that city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Many of its residents are travelers, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north east. West Linton has a long history, and also holds a yearly conventional celebration called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of ancient beginning. Its name derives from a Celtic element (cognate with the modern Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern-day 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 swimming pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and linn, meaning black swimming pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, fortified area, or army camp (related to the contemporary English community, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of dwellings), and also is seemingly appropriate, as the town shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, pools and also marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, identified maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this location, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic version of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired several centuries later to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
