 Chatelherault Country Park near Hamilton |
Hamilton was a district council area which existed from 1975 to 1996. It was one of 19 district councils that delivered a range of local level services within the wider area of Strathclyde Region, which over this period was one of the 12 regions into which Scotland was divided.
Hamilton was one of the five district council areas within the Lanark sub-region of Strathclyde, and its area had previously formed a small part of the traditional county of Lanarkshire. The result was a small district that included Hamilton itself and the surrounding area. It was bordered by the districts of Monklands, Motherwell, Clydesdale, East Kilbride and City of Glasgow, all districts of Strathclyde.
When regions and districts disappeared from the scene in a major reorganisation of Scottish local government in 1996, the district council area of Hamilton became part of the unitary council area of South Lanarkshire, one of the 32 unitary council areas into which Scotland has since been divided.
