Renfrewshire (historic)
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| County of Renfrew | |
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| Area - Total |
Ranked 28th 156,785 acres (634 km²) |
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| County town | Renfrew |
| Chapman code | RFW |
Renfrewshire, officially the County of Renfrew, is a registration county of Scotland. It was also used for administrative purposes as a county of Scotland until 1975, and between 1890 and 1975 it had its own elected county council. From 1975 the county was administrated as part of the newly-created Strathclyde Region.
It covers the current council areas of Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde, each roughly corresponding to the former Strathclyde districts of Renfrew, Eastwood and Inverclyde, respectively. It has its origins in the Stewart lordship of Strathgryfe.
Renfrewshire as a registration county includes several areas annexed to and subsequently enveloped by neighbouring Glasgow in the 1920s. The county is also retained as a Lieutenancy area and can still be used in postal addresses.
The unofficial county flower of Renfrewshire is the Bogbean, following a UK-wide competition organised by the charity Plantlife in 2002.
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
