County of Kinross or Kinross-shire is a historic county and registration county in eastern Scotland, administered as part of Perth and Kinross since 1975...
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Perth and Kinross Council, which is based in Perth. The area takes its name from the two historical shires of Perthshire and Kinross-shire. Each was administered...
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Inverness-shire Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Morayshire Nairnshire Peeblesshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross-shire Roxburghshire...
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Perth and Kinross-shire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster...
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it borders the counties of Inverness-shire and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus to the east, Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and...
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of Kinross-shire. Kinross's origins are connected with the nearby Loch Leven and its islands whose history goes back to the 5th century AD. Kinross developed...
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They were: the Fife and Kinross Railway from Ladybank to Kinross; the Kinross-shire Railway from near Cowdenbeath to Kinross; and the Devon Valley Railway...
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Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of Perth and Kinross)
constituency in southern Perth and Kinross-shire, housing affluent resort towns such as Auchterarder, Crieff and Kinross. Clackmannanshire is better known...
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Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland...
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Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i.e., the historic counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire) and Clackmannanshire. By custom it is widely...
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Orwell is a parish in Kinross-shire, Scotland. It contains the market town of Milnathort, as well as the hamlet of Middleton. The name comes from the...
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List of burghs in Scotland (section Kinross-shire)
adoption of police system Earlier burghal history Post Union parliamentary burgh status Kinross burgh 1864 Burgh of barony 1541 Burgh of regality 1685 None...
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Perthshire South and Kinross-shire is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Perth and Kinross. It elects one...
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Perth and North Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of Perth and Kinross)
and Earn and Kinross-shire from the abolished constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire – it was be reformed as Perth and Kinross-shire, first contested...
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Kinross House is a late 17th-century country house overlooking Loch Leven, near Kinross in Kinross-shire, Scotland. Construction of the house began in...
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List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom (redirect from 1886 Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire by-election)
Liberal Secretary of State for the Home Department2 Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire 25 August 18921 John Balfour Liberal John Balfour Liberal Lord Advocate2...
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Kinross-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom...
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Kinross-shire is one of the twelve wards used to elect members of the Perth and Kinross Council. It elects four Councillors. 2022 Perth and Kinross Council...
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the county of Kinross was covered, nominally, by Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, which also covered, nominally, the county of Clackmannan, and the county...
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(Scottish MP) (1730–1801), MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire George Graham (soldier) (1772–1830), Virginia lawyer...
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and hymnist. Bruce was born at Kinnesswood in the parish of Portmoak, Kinross-shire. His father, Alexander Bruce, was a weaver. Michael was taught to read...
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Haddingtonshire – renamed East Lothian 1921 Inverness Kincardineshire Kinross-shire (until 1975) Kirkcudbright Lanarkshire Linlithgowshire – renamed West...
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Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Kinross elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and...
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Shires of Scotland (redirect from Shire or Stewartry)
populous counties, Kinross-shire and Nairnshire, were each paired with a larger neighbour; Nairnshire with Moray, and Kinross-shire with Perthshire. The...
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County of Kinross, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 May 1882 for Charles Adam, who was later Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire from...
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Perth, Scotland (redirect from Perth, Perth and Kinross)
the banks of the River Tay. It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and is the historic county town of Perthshire. It had a population...
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and Kinross-shire by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire on...
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Peter Leitch (VC) (category Military personnel from Perth and Kinross)
Commonwealth forces. Peter Leitch was brought up in Milnathort, Orwell, Kinross-shire in Scotland, becoming a carpenter and joiner. He enlisted in the Royal...
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Clackmannanshire (redirect from Shire of Clackmannan)
Scotland, bordering the council areas of Stirling, Fife, and Perth and Kinross. In terms of historic counties it borders Perthshire, Stirlingshire and...
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Milnathort (category Villages in Perth and Kinross)
the county of Kinross-shire, Scotland and since 1996, the local council area of Perth and Kinross. The smaller neighbour of nearby Kinross, Milnathort has...
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