Perth and Kinross Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
council area of Scotland
About Perth and Kinross
In 1975 the historic counties of England and Scotland were reorganised, and ancient shires were swept away. Many of these reforms worked and have endured, others proved unpopular and impractical and were changed. This area fell in the second category, being carved up between the new entities of Central Region and Tayside, names redolent of bleak blocks of flats and vandalised concrete shopping malls. So those were in turn abolished in 1994 to create this new county, more or less corresponding to the former Perthshire and Kinross-shire. Perthshire was by far the larger, a great circular territory, and its name is still used informally. The fault line between highland and lowland Scotland runs diagonally, so north and west is upland, with sleet-lashed moors, forestry plantations and poor far
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