County Map of Scotland

Please click in the appropriate map area to link to the relevant county page.

Select a county from either of the lists below, or use the clickable 1890-1975 county map of Scotland. If you don't know which county a parish or town lies in, try an online gazetteer covering the whole of the UK. GRO Scotland list of the Old Parochial Registers links to an alphabetical list of parishes, with numbers 1 to 901, and has a list showing allocation of numbers to groups of counties. To find which GENUKI pages cover more modern administrative areas and the "Counties of Cities" see Regions and Counties of Cities.

Map-Numeric Order   1: Caithness   2: Sutherland   3: Ross & Cromarty       (+ Part of Lewis) 3a: Cromarty - Pre 1890 only   4: Inverness-shire       (+ Part of Lewis, Uist & Skye)   5: Nairnshire   6: County of Moray   7: Banffshire   8: Aberdeenshire   9: Kincardineshire 10: Angus       (Forfarshire until 1928) 11: Perthshire 12: County of Argyll 13: County of Bute 14: Ayrshire 15: Renfrewshire 16: Dunbartonshire 17: Stirlingshire 18: Clackmannanshire 19: Kinross-shire 20: County of Fife 21: East Lothian       (Haddingtonshire until 1921) 22: Midlothian       (County of Edinburgh until 1921) 23: West Lothian       (Linlithgowshire until 1921) 24: Lanarkshire 25: Peeblesshire 26: Selkirkshire 27: Berwickshire 28: Roxburghshire 29: Dumfriesshire 30: Kirkcudbrightshire 31: Wigtownshire       Orkney (Not shown on map)       Shetland (Not shown on map)

This 1890-1975 map below is Hover-Clickable Original maps courtesy of WIKI Copyleft Licence

Alphabetic Order Aberdeenshire [8] Angus [10] (Forfarshire until 1928) County of Argyll [12] Ayrshire [14] Banffshire [7] Berwickshire [27] County of Bute [13] Caithness [1] Clackmannanshire [18] Cromarty - Pre 1890 only [3a] Dumfriesshire [29] Dunbartonshire [16] East Lothian [21] (Haddingtonshire until 1921) County of Fife [20] Inverness-shire [4] (+ Part of Lewis, Uist & Skye) Kincardineshire [9] Kinross-shire [19] Kirkcudbrightshire [30] Lanarkshire [24] Midlothian [22] (County of Edinburgh until 1921) County of Moray [6] Nairnshire [5] Orkney (Not shown on map) Peeblesshire [25] Perthshire [11] Renfrewshire [15] Ross & Cromarty (+ Part of Lewis) [3] Roxburghshire [28] Selkirkshire [26] Shetland (Not shown on map) Stirlingshire [17] Sutherland [2] West Lothian [23] (Linlithgowshire until 1921) Wigtownshire [31]