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The congregation of West Linton Associate, which belonged to the Burgher branch of the Secession church, served in the early years as the leading congregation within a wide district of the country, the bounds of which extended midway to Edinburgh. The first recorded mention of West Linton appears in the Associate Presbytery minutes of 1737 when a petition was presented, signed by around 60 parishioners, requesting that they be supplied with sermon within West Linton. Accordingly, the petitioners within the parish were recognised as a congregation and the first minister of West Linton Associate was ordained in 1740. In 1900, upon the union of the Free Church and the United Presbyterians, West Linton United Presbyterian became West Linton United Free Church and in 1910 a union was established between West Linton United Free and Newlands United Free, to form the session of West Linton and Newlands United Free Church. Following the 1929 union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, West Linton United Free was renamed West Linton Trinity, and a number of years thereafter in 1943 the congregation was reduced in status. |