Historic Counties

Historically, Scotland was made up of 33 counties which still exist in law, separate from the administrative counties used for local government. Click on the links below to see our related posts. More links will be added as we travel around Scotland.

• Aberdeenshire

• City of Aberdeen.

• Angus
  • City of Dundee.

• Ayrshire
  • Towns of Ayr, Irvine, Kilmarnock and Troon.
  • Village of Skelmorlie.

• Banffshire

• Berwickshire
  • Towns of Berwick-upon-Tweed (now within England), Coldstream and Eyemouth.

• Buteshire
  • Town of Rothesay.

• Caithness

• Clackmannanshire
  • Towns of Alloa and Clackmannan.

• Dumfriesshire
  • Towns of Annan, Dumfries, Gretna, Moffat, Langholm, Lochmaben, Lockerbie, Sanquhar and Thornhill.
  • Villages of Ecclefechan, Gretna Green, Hoddom and Torthorwald.
  • Old Toll Bar Cafe Gretna.
  • Samye Ling Centre.

• Dunbartonshire
  • Towns of Balloch and Dumbarton.

• East Lothian
  • Town of Dunbar.

• Fife
  • Towns of Dunfermline, KincardineKirkcaldy
  • Villages of Culross and North Queensferry.

• Invernesshire

• Kincardineshire

• Kinrossshire

• Kirkcudbrightshire
  • Towns of Castle Douglas and Kirkcudbright.
  • Villages of Dundrennan and New Abbey.

• Lanarkshire
  • City of Glasgow.
  • Towns of Biggar and Lanark.

• Midlothian

• City of Edinburgh.
• Village of South Queensferry.

• Moray

• Nairnshire

• Orkney

• Peeblesshire
  • Town of Peebles.

• Perthshire
  • City of Perth.

• Renfrewshire
  • Towns of Paisley and Wemyss Bay.

• Ross and Cromarty

• Roxburghshire
  • Towns of Hawick, Jedburgh, Kelso and Melrose.

• Selkirkshire
  • Town of Selkirk.

• Shetland

• Stirlingshire
  • City of Stirling.
  • Town of Falkirk.
  • Falkirk Wheel.

• Sutherland

• West Lothian

• Wigtownshire
  • Towns of Stranraer, Whithorn and Wigtown.
  • Villages of Glenluce, Isle of Whithorn and Portpatrick.