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The Edinburgh urban area comprises the adjoined localities: Edinburgh, Musselburgh, and Wallyford. This page lists residential areas of Edinburgh situated in the Edinburgh urban area. The urban area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is located in the City of Edinburgh council area and in East Lothian.
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 boundaries of the historic county of Midlothian, including the city of Edinburgh, are still used for some limited official purposes connected with land registration, being a registration county. [5] The Midlothian lieutenancy area corresponds to the current council area rather than the historic county. [6]
A registration district in the United Kingdom is a type of administrative region which exists for the purpose of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths and civil partnerships. [1] It has also been used as the basis for the collation of census information.
English: Map showing registration districts in Scotland in 2005. Date: 15 June 2020: Source: UK Data Service - Open data : Author: ... Registration district; Metadata.
As a district council. Year SNP: Labour: Liberal [a] Conservative: Independent: 1974: 1 29 3 30 1 1977: 5 23 1 34 1 1980 [b] 2 25 2 31 ... City of Edinburgh Council ...
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The amending Acts reduced their responsibilities by appointing registration district examiners to inspect the registers. They also made revised provision for the transmission of the parochial registers up to the year 1820 to the General Register Office Scotland (GROS), and the registers for the years 1820–1855 to the custody of the local ...