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Linlithgow gained its royal status as a burgh in 1388 under a charter from Robert II of Scotland. [6] Linlithgow developed in the Middle Ages as a royal residence for Scottish Kings on the raised hill beside the Loch, as the site was a logical stop between Edinburgh to the east and Stirling to the West. [7]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... A census locality in Scotland is a reporting district for results from the 2001 census ... Linlithgow: 13,370 ...
Scotland was split into sheriffdoms, what would later become counties, in the reign of David I. The first known reference to a sheriff of Linlithgow occurs in a charter dating from the reign of his successor Malcolm IV. For a time West Lothian became a constabulary, but it seems to have been made a sheriffdom again during the reign of James III.
This is a list of counties of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 and abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The list includes the county town, area, and population density.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... ordered by population as at the 1951 census. Rank County Total population 1: ... 1951 Census of Scotland
From 1845 to 1930, parishes formed part of the local government system of Scotland: having parochial boards from 1845 to 1894, and parish councils from 1894 until 1930.. The parishes, which had their origins in the ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland, often overlapped county boundaries, largely because they reflected earlier territorial divisions.
The 1881 census was the first UK census to be indexed in its entirety. In the 1980s, in a project that has been characterised as "the largest collection of historical source material to be made available in computerised form", [5] and "the first major 'crowd-sourced' exercise in the world", [6] the Genealogical Society of Utah began collaborating with the Federation of Family History Societies ...
Linlithgow was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707 , Linlithgow, Lanark , Peebles and Selkirk formed the Linlithgow district of burghs , returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain .