Stirlingshire
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| County of Stirling | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total |
Ranked 20th 286,338 acres (1159 km²) |
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| County town | Stirling |
| Chapman code | STI |
Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling (Siorrachd Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a registration county of Scotland, based around Stirling, the former county town. It borders Perthshire to the north, Clackmannanshire and West Lothian to the east, Lanarkshire to the south, and Dunbartonshire to the south-west.
Until 1975 it was a county. Most of Stirlingshire is now in the much-larger Stirling and East Dunbartonshire council areas. The southeastern parishes are now part of the Falkirk area. Two small exclaves of Stirlingshire inside Perthshire at Logie and Alva are covered by the Clackmannanshire council area. Kilsyth is now part of North Lanarkshire.
The parishes of the county were:
- Airth
- Alva
- Baldernock
- Balfron
- Bothkennar
- Buchanan
- Campsie
- Denny
- Drymen
- Dunipace
- Falkirk
- Fintry
- Gargunnock
- Killearn
- Kilsyth
- Kippen
- Larbert
- Logie
- Muiravonside
- Polmont
- St. Ninians
- Slamannan
- Strathblane
- Stirling
[edit] External links
- William Nimmo's The History of Stirlingshire at Electric Scotland
Subdivisions created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
Aberdeenshire • Angus • Argyll • Ayrshire • Banffshire • Berwickshire • Bute • Caithness • Clackmannanshire • Dumfriesshire • Dunbartonshire • East Lothian • Fife • Inverness-shire • Kincardineshire • Kinross-shire • Kirkcudbrightshire • Lanarkshire • Midlothian • Moray • Nairnshire • Orkney • Peeblesshire • Perthshire • Renfrewshire • Ross and Cromarty • Roxburghshire • Selkirkshire • Shetland • Stirlingshire • Sutherland • West Lothian • Wigtownshire
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