Perthshire

Perthshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt) is a county in central Scotland. Officially, it is the County of Perth, and a registration county in central Scotland. By "registration" is meant marriage and land registration uses Perthshire as a county.

Perthshire
Perthshire within Scotland
Area
• 1975	2528 sq. miles (6547 sq. km) (5th)
History
• Succeeded by	Tayside Region
Status	Local government county (until 1975) Land registration county (1996 - )
Chapman code	PER
Government	County: Perthshire County Council (1890-1929) Perth and Kinross County Council (1929-1975) Modern: Perth and Kinross Council (1996 - ) Lieutenancy: Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross
• HQ	Perth (county town and administrative centre)
• Motto	Pro Lege et Libertate ('For Law and Liberty')
Coat of arms of the county council

History

After 1930, when it was an administrative county, governments changed the local system time and again. At the moment Perthshire is split between Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross and Stirling. Ordinary people stil call it Perthshire.

Places

Perthshire is known as the "big county" and has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural land in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.