Renfrewshire (historic)

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County of Renfrew
Geography
Area
- Total		 Ranked 28th
156,785 acres (634 km²)
County town Renfrew
Chapman code RFW

Renfrewshire or the County of Renfrew is a registration county, Lieutenancy area, and one of the counties of Scotland used for local government until 1975.

The county town of Renfrewshire is the Royal Burgh of Renfrew, however local government in Renfrewshire was based out of Paisley, a practice which continued for the smaller Renfrewshire unitary local authority area of today.

Renfrewshire in this context covers the current council areas of Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde.

Renfrewshire as a registration county includes several areas annexed to and subsequently enveloped by neighbouring Glasgow in the 1920s. The county is still often used in postal addresses.

The Renfrewshire lieutenancy operates out of the headquarters of East Renfrewshire Council in Giffnock[1]

See also: History of the local government of Scotland

The County of Renfrew has its origins in the Stewart lordship of Strathgryfe.

From 1890, the county was used alongside the other counties of Scotland as a unit of local government with its elected county council. In 1975 Renfrewshire was incorporated for local government purposes into the region of Strathclyde, composed of districts of which Renfrewshire was divided into three: Renfrew, Eastwood and Inverclyde.

In 1996, local government was again reorganised in Scotland to create the present system of unitary local council areas. For these purposes, the districts which made up the county were largely kept and became the council areas of Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde respectively.

In 2002, the charity Plantlife organised a UK-wide competition to categorise county flowers, of which Renfrewshire's is unofficially the Bogbean.

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