Siorrachd Pheairt
| Perthshire | |
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 Perthshire within Scotland |
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| 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 |
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Perthshire (/pɛrθʃər/; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. It was a local government county from 1890 to 1930.
Perthshire is known as the "big county", owed to its roundness and status as the 4th largest historic county in Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.
Perthshire was an administrative county between 1890 and 1975, governed by a county council. This Local Government council was superseded in 1930, when a joint Local Government council was formed with the neighbouring small county of Kinross-shire, linking the two.
In 1975 this Local Government council was in turn superseded by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and split between the Local Government Central and Tayside Regions:
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