West Linton is a village and also civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the region of Peeblesshire, yet considering that city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Many of its residents are commuters, owing to the village's closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 kilometres) to the north east. West Linton has a long history, and also holds a yearly conventional celebration called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name derives from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and also 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 and linn, meaning black swimming pool) and also the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, strengthened location, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, using the Saxon "tun", a farm or collection of houses), and also is evidently ideal, as the village shows up to have actually been bordered by lakes, swimming pools as well as marshes. At one time it was referred to as Lyntoun Roderyck, identified probably with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose region included this area, or with a local chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was gotten lots of centuries later on to clear up the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.
