West Linton
West Linton is a town and civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the county of Peeblesshire, but given that local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. A lot of its homeowners are travelers, owing to the town's proximity to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a lengthy background, as well as holds a yearly traditional festival called the Whipman Play. The town of Linton is of old origin. Its name stems from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as modern Welsh "Llyn") meaning 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 pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh as well as linn, meaning black pool) as well as the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, fortified place, or military camp (related to the contemporary English community, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of houses), and is evidently ideal, as the town shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, pools and marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this location, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained many centuries later to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.