West Linton
West Linton is a town and civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, yet given that city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A number of its citizens are commuters, owing to the town's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and also holds a yearly standard event called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as contemporary 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 as well as linn, suggesting black pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, strengthened location, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, by way of the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of homes), and is evidently proper, as the village appears to have actually been bordered by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At one time it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined 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 gotten several centuries later to make clear the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.
