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West Linton is a village as well as civil parish in southern Scotland, on the A702. It was formerly in the county of Peeblesshire, but because local government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is currently part of Scottish Borders. Much of its residents are travelers, owing to the village’s closeness to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north east. West Linton has a long background, and also holds an annual conventional festival called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of old beginning. Its name stems from a Celtic component (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, and modern Welsh “Llyn”) implying 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 as well as linn, meaning black pool) and the Gaelic “dun” Welsh “cacophony”), for a citadel, strengthened area, or army camp (pertaining to the modern-day English town, by way of the Saxon “tun”, a farm or collection of dwellings), and also is seemingly appropriate, as the town appears to have been bordered by lakes, swimming pools and also marshes. At once it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined maybe with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose area included this location, or with a neighborhood 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 gotten many centuries later on to make clear the difference from East Linton in East Lothian.