Where is Glasgow?

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Where is Glasgow?

Postby donjuan » Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:43 pm

I keep seeing Glasgow, Lanarkshire everywhere. Glasgow isn't in Lanarkshire is it.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby clarkfield » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:00 pm

Glasgow was originally classed as being in Lanarkshire. As time went on and things changed. Strathclyde came into existence and Glasgow was contained therein. When I was young and not so young, I can assure you Glasgow was in Lanarkshire.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby donjuan » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:02 pm

I know it was in Lanarkshire years ago, but it's not now is it.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby dazza » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:13 am

donjuan wrote:I know it was in Lanarkshire years ago, but it's not now is it.


No, not now, but often when you're filling out forms online with your address it insists on a 'county' but does not have a Glasgow (city of) option.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby RapidAssistant » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:13 pm

Glasgow is a unitary authority - a 'city county' if you will - effectively split out from former Lanarkshire territory.

South of the border, people still say that Manchester is in Lancashire, Birmingham is in Warwickshre, and maybe even that London is in Middlesex!
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby Vinny the Mackem » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:32 pm

If you're filling your address in on one of these online forms, "Glasgow" isn't usually an option for county if its a pro-forma drop down box. If it's an empty box, I always put Glasgow. From my limited knowledge of conveyancing documents, the area is technically known as "the County of the Barony and Regality of Glasgow" and not Lanarkshire anymore.

From my neck of the woods, most folk still refer to Sunderland as being in County Durham, even though it hasn't been since 1974.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby yoker brian » Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:04 am

55° 51′ 44.86″ N, 4° 15′ 13.35″ W
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby moonbeam » Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:05 pm

Useless information corner. Drumchapel until taken over by Glasgow was part of Dunbartonshire. Due to the war even as late as 1949 Drumchapel was part of a Dunbartonshire constituency and if in Drumchapel you voted for a Dunbartonshire candidate. Church parish's were part of Dunbartonshire and to this day some documentation pertaining to the Drumchapel area is still held in the Dumbarton archives. The old Dunbarton County Council built "council" houses in Drumchapel.
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Re: Where is Glasgow?

Postby sandabound » Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:17 pm

yoker brian wrote:55° 51′ 44.86″ N, 4° 15′ 13.35″ W


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