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Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (, ) is a historic county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.
Historically, Lanarkshire was the most populous county in Scotland and, in earlier times, had considerably greater boundaries, including neighbouring Renfrewshire until 1402. In modern times, it is bounded to the north by Stirlingshire and a detached portion of Dunbartonshire, to the northeast by Stirlingshire, West Lothian, to the east by Peeblesshire, to the southeast and south by Dumfriesshire, to the southwest by Dumfriesshire and Ayrshire and to the west by Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire.
Lanarkshire was historically divided between two administrative areas. In the mid-18th century it was divided again into three wards: the upper, middle and lower wards with their administrative centres at Lanark, Hamilton and Glasgow, respectively, and remained this way until the Local Government Act of 1889. Other significant settlements include Coatbridge, East Kilbride, Motherwell, Airdrie, Blantyre, Cambuslang, Rutherglen, Wishaw and Carluke.
In 1975, the county council was abolished and the area absorbed into the larger Strathclyde region, which itself was divided into new Council Areas in 1996. The old area of Lanarkshire is now occupied by the council areas of:
- East Dunbartonshire (1996–present)
- Glasgow City Council (1996–present)
- North Lanarkshire (1996–present)
- South Lanarkshire (1996–present)
North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire have a joint board for valuation and electoral registration. There is also a joint health board, which does not cover Rutherglen and the surrounding area in South Lanarkshire. Without the northern portion of North Lanarkshire, this is also a Lieutenancy area.
Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( Westminster) from 1708 to 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Lanark elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.
From 1708 Lanarkshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Usage examples of "lanarkshire".
On another occasion, when Thackeray came to Glasgow to deliver his lectures on the Four Georges, the great novelist was introduced to the Sheriff of Lanarkshire by the late Mr.
He is a member of several learned bodies, and is also chaplain of the 19th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Robert Morgan Skinner, born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, on April 7, 1951.
Mother well, and plans were in hand for a cremation at a place called Daldowie, in Lanarkshire, five days later, on the following Tuesday.
I actually wanted to be in a guitar band, but in Lanarkshire you have to be from Bellshill to do that.
Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Yeomanries, but also demolished the fine earth church which the Anglican Padre had had built.
In 1806 he was ordained minister of the Burgher congregation at Biggar, Lanarkshire, where he laboured for sixteen years.
Equally, an indentured servant was as likely to come from Lanarkshire or Wales or Cornwall as from London.
William Lockhart of Birkhill, the head of an old family in Lanarkshire, lineally descended from Sir Stephen Lockhart of Cleghorn, a member of the Privy Council, and armour-bearer to James III.
James Brown was born at Libberton, a village in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, on the 1st of July 1796.
The lands of Stevenson in Lanarkshire first mentioned in the next century, in the Ragman Roll, lie within twenty miles east.