Eastwood, Strathclyde

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Eastwood District 1975-96
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Eastwood (A' Choille an Ear in Scottish Gaelic) was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying south-west of the City of Glasgow.

The district was formed from the area of the First District of the former county of Renfrewshire. The council's headquarters were at Giffnock. The district was named after the larger Eastwood civil parish itself named after a long-vanished woodland.[1]

The district was abolished by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, with its area included in the East Renfrewshire unitary council area.

[edit] Constituencies

The Eastwood Westminster constituency was created in 1983, and the Eastwood Holyrood constituency, with the same boundaries, in 1999.

The Westminster constituency was renamed East Refrewshire in 2005. The Holyrood constituency retains its original name.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eastwood, or Pollock, Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 1846 (British History Online)


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