In 1890 Local Government in Scotland was reorganised into 33 county councils. This system was to remain in place until 1975. The map was much neater than that in place before 1890, with only one exclave remaining, of Dunbartonshire (the name was changed from Dumbartonshire in the early 1900s) squeezed between Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. The Western Isles remained split between two counties whose county towns were at distant Dingwall and Inverness. In 1975 counties were swept away to be replaced by a two-tier system of regions and districts.
Links to pages with information about each county can be found below the map.
 Map Showing Scottish Counties from 1890 to 1975Note About Image Copyright |
Key to Counties, 1890-1975
- 1. Caithness
- 2. Sutherland
- 3. Ross and Cromarty
- 4. Inverness-shire
- 5. Nairnshire
- 6. County of Moray
- 7. Banffshire
- 8. Aberdeenshire
- 9. Kincardineshire
- 10. Angus
(Forfarshire until 1928) - 11. Perthshire
- 12. Argyll
- 13. County of Bute
- 14. Ayrshire
- 15. Renfrewshire
- 16. Dunbartonshire
- 17. Stirlingshire
- 18. Clackmannanshire
- 19. Kinross-shire
- 20. Fife
- 21. East Lothian
(Haddingtonshire until 1921) - 22. Midlothian
(County of Edinburgh until 1921) - 23. West Lothian
(Linlithgowshire until 1921) - 24. Lanarkshire
- 25. Peeblesshire
- 26. Selkirkshire
- 27. Berwickshire
- 28. Roxburghshire
- 29. Dumfriesshire
- 30. Kirkcudbrightshire
- 31. Wigtownshire
