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Administrative regions In 1975 the former local government units -chiefly the counties of Ayr was divided into the districts of Kyle and Carrick, Cumnock and the burghs -which had been modified considerably in the nineand Doon Valley, Kilmarnock and Loudon and Cunninghame (which teenth and twentieth centuries were replaced by a two-tier system also included Arran and the Cumbraes). The system of 1975 was of local government consisting of nine regions and three island aritself replaced in April 1996 with a system of 32 single tier districts. eas at the top and 53 districts under them. The largest region -StrathUntil the nineteenth century there had been one sheriffclyde -stretched from Skye to Carrick and had a population of about dom for each county. Finally they were organized in nine groups of 2"2 million; whereas Orkney had only about 20,000. counties with one sheriff principal each -except Lanark, which was The districts in many cases -for example, West Lothian -a single county sheriffdom. After 1975 there were five sheriffdoms corresponded in area to the former counties; but the larger and more based on the regions and the sheriffdom of Glasgow and Strathkelvin. populous counties were divided into several districts: thus, the county ~ ~ f;:j ~{& ORKNEY r-;;c!/6;1 ISLANDSAREA~ ~Orkney , lJ .... _-- SHETLAND ISLANDS AREA WESTERN ISLES ISLANDS AREA 1 Clydebank 2 Bearsden and Milngavie 3 Strathkelvin 4 Cumbernauld and Kilsy1h 5 Monklands 6 City of Glasgow 7 Eastwood 8 Hamilton 9 Kilmarnock and Loudoun 10 East Kilbride kms FIFE REGION Region or Island Area 0 25, 50,, 75, , 100 Sutherland District 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles Regions, island areas and districts PGBMTranscribers who have contributed to this page.
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Aberdeenshire County, Angus County, Argyll County, Ayrshire County, Banffshire County, Berwickshire County, Buteshire County, Caithness County, Clackmannanshire County, Cromarty County, Dumfriesshire County, Dunbartonshire County, East Lothian County, Fife County, Inverness-shire County, Kincardineshire County, Kinross-shire County, Kirkcudbrightshire County, Lanarkshire County, Midlothian County, Morayshire County, Nairnshire County, Orkney County, Peeblesshire County, Perthshire County, Renfrewshire County, Ross County, Ross And Cromarty County, Roxburghshire County, Selkirkshire County, Shetland County, Stirlingshire County, Sutherland County, West Lothian County, Wigtownshire County