Regions and districts of Scotland
The
local government regions and districts of Scotland were established under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as a two-tier system of local government in
Scotland. This reorganisation of local government took full effect in 1975. Each of nine regions was divided into a number of districts, varying from three to nineteen.
The new system was based closely on that proposed by the
Wheatley Report produced by a
Royal Commission into Scottish local government in
1969, and the regions generally bore no relation at all to the
administrative counties that had been used prevously, since
1889. Also, the districts were quite different from the subdivisions of counties, also called
districts, which had been created and used under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929.
The regions and districts were abolished on
April 1,
1996 and replaced with the current
unitary council areas of Scotland. In 1996 some regions became unitary council areas. Various regions were broken up into many council areas and various districts became unitary council areas.
In addition to the regions and districts, there were three
island council areas, covering
Shetland,
Orkney, and the
Western Isles (Outer Hebrides). These areas may be seen as regions consisting of just one district and, in retrospect, as early examples of Scottish unitary council areas.
Scotland was subdivided into regions as follows:
The regions consisted of disticts as follows:
Alphabetical list of districts
| District | Region |
|---|
| Aberdeen | Grampian |
| Angus | Tayside |
| Annandale and Eskdale | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Argyll | Strathclyde |
| Badenoch and Strathspey | Highland |
| Banff and Buchan | Grampian |
| Bearsden and Milngavie | Strathclyde |
| Berwickshire | Borders |
| Caithness | Highland |
| Clackmannan | Central |
| Clydebank | Strathclyde |
| Clydesdale | Strathclyde |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | Strathclyde |
| Cumnock and Doon Valley | Strathclyde |
| Cunninghame | Strathclyde |
| Dumbarton | Strathclyde |
| Dundee | Tayside |
| Dunfermline | Fife |
| East Kilbride | Strathclyde |
| East Lothian | Lothian |
| Eastwood | Strathclyde |
| Edinburgh | Lothian |
| Ettrick and Lauderdale | Borders |
| Falkirk | Central |
| Glasgow | Strathclyde |
| Gordon | Grampian |
| Hamilton | Strathclyde |
| Inverclyde | Strathclyde |
| Inverness | Highland |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | Strathclyde |
| Kincardine and Deeside | Grampian |
| Kirkcaldy | Fife |
| Kyle and Carrick | Strathclyde |
| Lochaber | Highland |
| Midlothian | Lothian |
| Monklands | Strathclyde |
| Moray | Grampian |
| Motherwell | Strathclyde |
| Nairn | Highland |
| Nithsdale | Dumfries and Galloway |
| North-East Fife | Fife |
| Orkney Islands | Orkney Islands |
| Perth and Kinross | Tayside |
| Renfrew | Strathclyde |
| Ross and Cromarty | Highland |
| Roxburgh | Borders |
| Shetland Islands | Shetland Islands |
| Skye and Lochalsh | Highland |
| Stewartry | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Stirling | Central |
| Strathkelvin | Strathclyde |
| Sutherland | Highland |
| Tweeddale | Borders |
| Western Isles | Western Isles |
| West Lothian | Lothian |
| Wigtown | Dumfries and Galloway |
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List of burghs in Scotland*
Counties of Scotland*
Lieutenancy areas of Scotland*
Subdivisions of Scotland *
List of places in Scotland*
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