West Linton
West Linton is a village and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, however given that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Many of its homeowners are commuters, owing to the village's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long background, and also holds a yearly conventional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old origin. Its name originates from a Celtic aspect (cognate with the modern Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also 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 pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh and also linn, suggesting black swimming pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "hullabaloo"), for a citadel, strengthened location, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of residences), as well as is obviously appropriate, as the town appears to have been surrounded by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory 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 kind of Roderick. The prefix "West" was acquired many centuries later to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.