Dunbartonshire Postcodes — Scotland (SCT)

Dunbartonshire

Located to the north of the River Clyde in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, Dunbartonshire (also known as the County of Dumbarton) is both a historic county and a lieutenancy area and registration county. In the north is Perthshire, in the east is Stirlingshire, in the south are Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, and to the west is Argyllshire. An exclave in the vicinity of Cumbernauld divides the county's borders with neighboring Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire.

The region was once a part of the Peerage of Scotland duchy of Lennox, which was connected to the Duke of Lennox.

Geography of Dunbartonshire

Loch Lomond, now part of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, dominates the sparsely inhabited northern half of the county, which it divides with Stirlingshire. Island I Vow, Tarbet Isle, Inchlonaig, Inchconnachan, Inchmoan, Inchtavannach, Fraoch Eilean, Inchgalbraith, Torrinch, Creinch, Inchmurrin, and Aber Isle are just a few of the many islands in the loch that are included in the county. You'll also find the considerably smaller Geal Loch, Lochan Beinn Damhain, Lochan Strath Dubh-uisge, and Loch Sloy. Ben Vorlich, at 943 m (3,094 ft), is the region's highest point and the 229th tallest mountain in Scotland.

The Rosneath peninsula in south-western Dunbartonshire extends the county's coastline along Loch Long and is divided from the rest of the county by Gare Loch. Both of them flow southward into the Firth of Clyde. The Kilpatrick Hills, which include several minor lochs and reservoirs, dominate the landscape to the east of the River Leven. Far to the southeast, the county includes a chunk of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area.

As an exclave, Cumbernauld is mostly level and thickly populated.

History of Dunbartonshire

Many of Scotland's county boundaries were redrawn and standardized in accordance with the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1889. The Dunbarton County Council was subsequently established in 1890. On June 28, 1965, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh made a special trip to Dumbarton to launch the brand new county buildings.

In 1975, as part of the larger Council of Strathclyde Region, the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 dissolved the Administrative Section, but not the placename of county used for "local government" purposes.

Dumbarton, Bearsden and Milngavie, Clydebank, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, and Strathkelvin Districts make up Strathclyde's nineteen districts. Strathkelvin District also includes a tiny portion of the erstwhile Lanarkshire.

At the next reorganization of local government in 1996, major functions like fire service and police were allowed to keep their regional identity, or "place-name."