Today our tour of major cities stops over Glasgow. The administrative centre of Glasgow City unitary authority, it is located in south-west central Scotland on the River Clyde. Although not the capital, it is the most populous city, and principal commercial and industrial centre of Scotland.
It is also a major tourist destination, possessing some of the finest architecture in Britain and hosting a variety of cultural events and attractions. The city occupies both banks of the Clyde about 32 km east of the river's mouth on the Firth of Clyde. It covers an area of some sq km, at the centre of the historical region of Strathclyde.
As with our previous views of major cities; the aim with this article is to show the differences Glasgow has experienced with the Landsat 5 and 8 images acquired in and used as reference. In the comparison, it is possible to see the development of the city, particularly in the suburbs and along the banks of the River Clyde. Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals, where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community.
In the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, the four biggest towns in Scotland Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow were individually given extensive local government and other powers and each was effectively made into a combination of burgh and county, and termed cities for local government purposes. In all burghs except the four cities were classed as either large burghs or small burghs, based on population size. This had an effect on record keeping.
For example, royal and parliamentary burghs originally had their own assessors and produced their own valuation rolls, whereas other burghs were included in respective county valuation rolls.
From until only cities and large burghs had assessors and were allowed to produce their own valuation roll. All other burghs were included in the respective county valuation rolls. To take an example, Airdrie burgh was included in the Lanarkshire county roll as part of New Monkland parish, until it became a large burgh in and thereafter it produced a separate valuation roll.
The results for a search confined to New Monkland parish should find entries for the burgh of Airdrie. To take another example, Rutherglen burgh was mostly within Rutherglen parish but the burgh had its own assessor. The burgh assessor produced a roll for the burgh and the remainder of Rutherglen parish outside the burgh the 'landward' part of the parish was recorded in the Lanarkshire County valuation roll. The results for a search for Rutherglen parish should include entries for the burgh but a search confined to Rutherglen burgh should exclude entries from the landward roll.
Where possible all parishes that form part of a burgh have been identified and have been listed as the individual parishes and not just listed under the burgh.
However, where the assessor did not break a burgh down to parish level we have not been able to list entries by the correct parish; instead we have had to list the entries in the same way as the assessor has broken it down. Stirling Burgh, for example, is broken down by Stirling, Logie Stirling and St Ninians parishes for some indexed years, but only by Stirling parish in other years. Where this occurs you should search for a property using the dominant parish in this case, Stirling parish to try and find the property or person for which you are looking.
A tidying up of the map of counties which reduced their number to 33 in had no effect on Lanarkshire, which as a result remained a county in its own right until reorganisation in swept all the counties away in favour of 12 regions. The regions formed in were the upper tier of a two tier local authority system, and the area which had formed Lanarkshire became part of the region of Strathclyde.
Most regions were divided into a number of district council areas, and Strathclyde was divided into no fewer than 19 of them. These were grouped into six sub-regions, mostly based on the traditional counties which had become part of Strathclyde. Most of Lanarkshire therefore became the Lanark sub-region of Strathclyde, and was divided into five district council areas: Clydesdale, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Monklands and Motherwell.
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