Dunbartonshire is one of the Traditional counties of Scotland, in that part of the country formerly called Lennox (which was a title of nobility). Dumbarton is the County Town. Dumbartonshire County Council was set up in 1889/90, and at the beginning of the 20th century, some influential councillors had spelling of the County name changed from Dumbartonshire to Dunbartonshire. The justification was that that Dumbarton derives from the GaelicDunbritton, but the town stuck with the name Dumbarton, and some people continued to refer to the county as Dumbartonshire.
The County disappeared as a political entity in 1974/5 when local government in Scotland was reorganised. The Council area was then divided into Dumbarton District Council, Bearsden and Milngavie District Council, Clydebank District Council and Strathkelvin District Council, the latter also containing a small part of the former Lanarkshire. For some major functions such as education, police, etc., the old County Council of Dunbarton was absorbed at the same time into the much larger Strathclyde Regional Council.
The Regional identity was retained for some major functions such as fire service and police at the next reorganisation of local government in 1996, but for most purposes the old County then found itself served by three new Councils: Argyll and Bute Council (Argyll being a more western part of Scotland that now took over the Rosneath, Helensburgh, Arrochar, Luss and Cardross parts of Dumbarton District), West Dunbartonshire Council and East Dunbartonshire Council . This is the state of affairs in 2003.
DUMBARTONSHIRE, a western county of Scotland, bounded N. by Perthshire, E. by Stirlingshire, S.E. by Lanarkshire, S. by the Clyde and its estuary, and W. by Loch Long and Argyllshire.
The mountainous region lying to the north of this line is composed of rocks belonging to the metamorphic series of the Eastern Highlands and representing several of the groups met with in the adjoining counties of Perth and Argyll.
Dumbartonshire forms a sheriffdom with the counties of Stirling and Clackmannan, and there is a resident sheriff-substitute at Dumbarton, who sits also at Kirkintilloch.
Highlands, Dumbartonshire is divided geologically into two areas, the boundary between the two being defined by a line extending from Rossdhu on Loch Lomond south-west by See also:
The ice which radiated from the Dumbartonshire Highlands moved south-east and east towards the central See also:
Dumbartonshire forms a sheriffdom with the counties of Stirling and See also:
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