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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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