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The 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 previously, 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.
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Regions
Scotland was subdivided into regions as follows:
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Districts
The regions consisted of districts as follows:
Alphabetical list of districts
| District | Region |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen | Grampian |
| Angus | Tayside |
| Annandale and Eskdale | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Argyll or Argyll and Bute | 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 |
See also
- List of burghs in Scotland
- Counties of Scotland
- Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
- Subdivisions of Scotland
- List of places in Scotland
- Local government in the United Kingdom
Notes and references
- ^ According to minutes of district council meetings on 21 May and 27 August 1974 the name of the Argyll district was scheduled to change to Argyll and Bute on 1 September 1974, in accordance with the terms of section 23 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
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