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South West Scotland is a region in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is an ambiguous term that includes Ayrshire , Galloway , Dumfriesshire , and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright , as well as Lanarkshire and/or Renfrewshire .
The current land registration system in Scotland divides Scotland into 33 Registration Counties, [6] each coming into effect on various dates between 1981 and 2003. These areas in most cases resemble those of the pre-1975 administrative counties with Glasgow being the only current city to form a registration county.
The first detailed county maps of Scotland were produced in the late 17th century. ... Linlithgowshire became West Lothian in 1925. [80] Forfarshire became Angus in 1928.
The term Dumfries and Galloway has been used since at least the 19th century – by 1911 the three counties had a united sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the western area of the Southern Uplands, [3] it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway [4] in the west of the region.
Ayrshire is roughly crescent-shaped and is a predominantly flat county with areas of low hills; it forms part of the Southern Uplands geographic region of Scotland. The north of the county contains the main towns and bulk of the population. East of Largs can be found the Renfrewshire Heights, which continue south to the hill-country around Blae ...
The following year, he acquired the part of Galloway west of the Cree, which continued to be administered by the king's sheriff, and so became known as the Shire of Wigtown. [16] The two parts of Galloway thereafter were administered separately, becoming separate counties. The High Medieval period saw a gradual incorporation of Galloway into ...
This is a list of the 33 counties of Scotland by their highest point. Rank County Height Name ... West Cairn Hill: 26: East Lothian: 535 m (1,755 ft)
An elected county council was established for each county in 1890 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. The county councils were abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. A region called Borders ...