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Perthshire (Perth, Crieff, Pitlochry, Callander, Blairgowrie, Rattray,
Coupar Angus, Kincardine)
By any standards Perthshire is one of
the truly great old counties of Scotland. In size it is the fourth
largest of the old counties in Scotland, comprising 1,595,804 acres.
But size is not everything, and despite having no extremely large
city, it has a much larger population than the other Scots counties
which top it in size, Inverness, Argyll and Ross and Cromarty.
Yet it has no industrial area, apart
from the town of Perth itself. It has its great mountain tracts, of
course, including some of the most famous scenery in the United
Kingdom; but there is an enormous amount of fertile, populous
countryside, far more, probably, than is generally realised, its
great green straits, or wide open valleys, its especial pride.
Contrary, to frequent pronouncements,
the true glory of Perthshire is not its hills and lochs, however
fine, for in these it can be excelled by Argyll and Inverness-shire,
Ross or Sutherland, it is in its magnificent, age old settled
lowlands.
Sir Walter Scott, said, If an
intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and most
beautiful province in Scotland, it is probable that he would name
the County of Perth.
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Morayshire,
Nairnshire Orkney,
Peeblesshire,
Perthshire
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Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire, Shetland,
Stirlingshire Sutherland,
West Lothian,
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