Editing Aberdeen City Council (section)

===City of Aberdeen District Council===
Local government across Scotland was reorganised in 1975 under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]], which replaced the counties, burghs and [[List of local government areas in Scotland (1930–1975)#Sub-county authorities|landward districts]] with a two-tier system of [[Local government areas of Scotland (1975–1996)|regions and districts]]. One of the districts was called 'City of Aberdeen', which formed part of Grampian Region. City of Aberdeen District Council was therefore a lower-tier district authority, with upper-tier regional functions being provided by Grampian Regional Council.<ref name=1973act>{{cite web |title=Quarter-inch Administrative Areas Maps: Scotland Sheet 5, 1969 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/222075470 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref>

The City of Aberdeen district covered a larger area than the pre-1975 city, taking in the parishes of [[Dyce]], [[Bucksburn|Newhills]], Old Machar, and [[Peterculter]] from Aberdeenshire and [[Nigg, Aberdeen|Nigg]] from Kincardineshire. All except Dyce had previously ceded territory to the city in pre-1975 boundary changes. The parish of Nigg added in 1975 just covered the residual rural parts of the old parish around [[Cove Bay]]; Nigg village itself had been absorbed into the city in 1935. The parish of Old Machar was named after [[St Machar's Cathedral]] in Old Aberdeen, which had been absorbed into the city in 1891; the parish of Old Machar that was absorbed in 1975 was just the residual part of the cathedral's old parish which lay north of the [[River Don, Aberdeenshire|River Don]], including [[Bridge of Don]].<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973|year=1973|chapter=65|access-date=6 August 2024}}</ref><ref name=1973act/>