List of counties of Scotland 1890-1975

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This is a list of counties of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 and abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The list includes the county town, area, and population density.

The area figure is the closest approximation from the currently available data to that of the county at the time of the 1971 census, from which the population data is taken.

County County town[1] Area (acres)[2] Area (hectares)[3] Population[4] Population Density (per km2)[5]
Inverness-shire Inverness 2695094 1091513 89655 8.21
Argyllshire Lochgilphead 2067034[6] 836498 59777 7.15
Ross and Cromarty Dingwall 1977254 800788 58284 7.28
Perthshire[7] Perth 1586577[8] 642563 127104 19.78
Sutherland Dornoch[9] 1297914 527607 13055 2.47
Aberdeenshire Aberdeen 1246585[10] 517255 150703[11] 29.14
Ayrshire Ayr 724239[12] 293095 361248 123.25
Dumfriesshire Dumfries 688067[13] 278456 88215 31.68
Kirkcudbrightshire Kirkcudbright 574024 232479 27369 11.77
Angus Forfar 540352[14] 218677 97312 44.50
Lanarkshire Hamilton 535605[15] 216920 626787 288.95
Caithness Wick 438833 177593 27792 15.65
Roxburghshire Jedburgh[16] 425564 172524 41960 24.32
Banffshire Banff 403054 163114 43500 26.67
Zetland Lerwick c.352337[17] 142585[18] 17331 12.15
Fife Cupar 322878 130667 327126 250.35
Wigtownshire Wigtown 311984 126258 27337 21.65
Moray[19] Elgin 304931 123497 51502 41.70
Berwickshire Duns 292535[17] 118384 20778 17.55
Stirlingshire Stirling 288349 116690 208958 179.07
Kincardineshire Stonehaven 244428[20] 98993 26066 26.33
Orkney Kirkwall c.240848[17] 93467[21] 17082 18.28
Peeblesshire Peebles 222240 90007 13675 15.19
Midlothian Edinburgh 203354[22] 82358 142213 172.68
Selkirkshire Selkirk 171209[23] 69285 20868 30.12
East Lothian Haddington 171044[24] 69273 55908 80.71
Dunbartonshire Dumbarton 154467[25] 62511 237540 380.00
Renfrewshire Renfrew 143829[17] 57800 362130 626.52
Bute Rothesay 139711[17] 56539 13309 23.54
Nairnshire[19] Nairn 104251 42221 11050 26.17
West Lothian Linlithgow 76859[17] 31103 108484 348.79
Kinross-shire[7] Kinross 52025[26] 21070 6423 30.48
Clackmannanshire Alloa 34838 14099 45544 323.03
City of Glasgow Glasgow 34647[17] 14021 897484 6401.00
City of Edinburgh Edinburgh 32415[17] 13117 453585 3457.99
City of Dundee Dundee 12229[17] 4948 182204 3682.33
City of Aberdeen Aberdeen 16715[27] 6764 182071 2691.77

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Keay & Keay (1994).
  2. ^ Keay & Keay (1994) unless otherwise stated.
  3. ^ Keay & Keay (1994) in cases where the acreage is provided by this author. Otherwise the figure is a calculation based on the assumed acreage.
  4. ^ United Kingdom 1971 Census
  5. ^ Calculated from 1971 Census data and 'Area'.
  6. ^ Argyllshire is reduced to a land area of 1,990,521 acres (805,535 hectares) if "waters, marsh and foreshore" are excluded from the total.
  7. ^ a b Perth and Kinross were administered as a "combined county" from 1930-1975.
  8. ^ Reduced from 1,595,804 acres (6,457.99 km²) in 1951.
  9. ^ According to Keay (1994) Dornoch was generally 'considered' to be the county town of Sutherland, although the council offices were in Golspie.
  10. ^ Possibly reduced from 1,263,300 acres (5,112 km²) in 1951 but see 'City of Aberdeen' below).
  11. ^ "Aberdeenshire District: Total Population" A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
  12. ^ Increased from 724,232 acres (2,930.86 km²) in 1951.
  13. ^ Reduced from 688,111 acres (2,784.69 km²) in 1951.
  14. ^ Reduced from 546,775 acres (2,212.72 km²) in 1951.
  15. ^ Reduced from 535,862 acres (2,168.56 km²) in 1951.
  16. ^ According to Keay (1994) the county town was Newtown St Boswells. The County Offices had moved there by 1930 (as listed in notices by the County Council of Roxburgh in the Edinburgh Gazette from that year). However, the county town is usually listed as Jedburgh, e.g. in Encyclopedia II op cit and "Carnegie Libraries" scotcities.com Retrieved 26 December 2007.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i The acreages for Berwickshire, Bute, Orkney, Renfrewshire, West Lothian and Zetland and the three cities are not provided by Keay (1994) and the figures used are from the 1951 census.
  18. ^ The current figure for Orkney Islands Council is 1,466 km2 for the same geographical area.
  19. ^ a b Moray and Nairn were administered as a "combined county" from 1930-1975.
  20. ^ Reduced from 242,460 acres (981.2 km²) in 1951.
  21. ^ The current figure for Orkney Islands Council is 990 km2 for the same geographical area.
  22. ^ Increased from 201,922 acres (817.15 km²) in 1951.
  23. ^ Keay (1994) provides the figure of 121,240 acres (490.6 km²) and 49,065 hectares. This is probably a typographical error for 171,240 acres (693.0 km²). For example, the 1976 World Book has a figure of 695 km2 for the county. The 1951 Census figure is used in this column.
  24. ^ Increased from 170,971 acres (691.90 km²) in 1951.
  25. ^ Increased from 154,362 acres (624.68 km²) in 1951.
  26. ^ Reduced from 52,392 acres (212.02 km²) in 1951.
  27. ^ Neither Keay (1994) or Vision of Britain offer a specific statistic. However the latter records a total acreage for 1,263,300 for 'Aberdeen'. This is clearly inclusive of Aberdeenshire, which elsewhere in the same database recorded as having an area of 1,246,585. The figure recorded here is the difference between the two. In general terms this is consistent with the Vision of Britain maps for the area.

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