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West Linton is a village as well as civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the region of Peeblesshire, yet since local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. A number of its residents are commuters, owing to the village’s closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, as well as holds a yearly traditional celebration called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of ancient beginning. Its name originates from a Celtic element (cognate with the modern-day Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and modern-day Welsh “Llyn”) suggesting 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, indicating black pool) and also the Gaelic “dun” Welsh “racket”), for a fortress, strengthened location, or army camp (pertaining to the contemporary English town, using the Saxon “tun”, a farm or collection of homes), as well as is obviously ideal, as the village appears to have actually been bordered by lakes, swimming pools and also marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined perhaps with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory 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 form of Roderick. The prefix “West” was acquired many centuries later to clarify the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.