Editing County town (section)

===Scotland===
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!County !! County town
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| {{flag|Aberdeenshire}}||[[Aberdeen]]{{efn|group=Scotland|In 1900 Aberdeen became a county of a city and thus outside the remit of the county council.}}
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| [[Angus, Scotland|Angus]] (or Forfarshire) ||[[Forfar]]
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| [[Argyll]]||[[Lochgilphead]] (formerly [[Inveraray]]){{efn|group=Scotland|Inveraray (the seat of the Duke of Argyll) was regarded as the county town until 1890, when the Argyll County Council was created with headquarters in Lochgilphead.}}
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| [[Ayrshire]]||[[Ayr]]
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| {{flag|Banffshire}} ||[[Banff, Aberdeenshire|Banff]]
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| {{flag|Berwickshire}}||[[Duns, Scottish Borders]] (formerly [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]], formerly [[Greenlaw]])
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| [[County of Bute|Bute]]||[[Rothesay, Argyll and Bute|Rothesay]]
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| {{flag|Caithness}} ||[[Wick, Caithness|Wick]]
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| [[Clackmannanshire]]||[[Alloa]] (formerly [[Clackmannan]])
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| [[Cromartyshire]]||[[Cromarty]]
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| [[Dumfriesshire]]||[[Dumfries]]
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| [[Dunbartonshire]]||[[Dumbarton]]
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| {{flag|East Lothian}} (or Haddingtonshire) ||[[Haddington, East Lothian|Haddington]]
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| [[Fife]]||[[Cupar]]
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| [[Inverness-shire]]||[[Inverness]]
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| [[Kincardineshire]]||[[Stonehaven]] (formerly [[Kincardine, Aberdeenshire|Kincardine]])
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| [[Kinross-shire]]||[[Kinross]]
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| {{flag|Kirkcudbrightshire}}||[[Kirkcudbright]]
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| [[Lanarkshire]]||[[Lanark]]{{efn|group=Scotland|The headquarters of the Lanark County Council were established in 1890 in [[Glasgow]]. In 1893 Glasgow became a county of itself, and was therefore outside the council's area. The county council moved to [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]] in 1964.<ref>Notice in ''Edinburgh Gazette'', 28 February 1964 that county council's address changed from Lanarkshire House, 191 Ingram Street, Glasgow C1 to County Buildings, Hamilton from 6 April 1964</ref>}}
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| [[Midlothian]] (or Edinburghshire) ||[[Edinburgh]]{{efn|group=Scotland|Edinburgh was a county of itself, and therefore lay outside the remit of the county council.}}
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| {{flag|Morayshire}} (or Elginshire) ||[[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]]
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| [[Nairnshire]]||[[Nairn]]
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| {{flag|Orkney}}||[[Kirkwall]]
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| [[Peeblesshire]]||[[Peebles]]
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| [[Perthshire]]||[[Perth, Scotland|Perth]]
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| [[Renfrewshire]]||[[Renfrew, Scotland|Renfrew]]{{efn|group=Scotland|The headquarters of Renfrew County Council were in [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]] from 1890.}}
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| [[Ross-shire]]||[[Dingwall]] (also the county town of [[Ross and Cromarty]])
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| [[Roxburghshire]]||[[Jedburgh]] (formerly [[Roxburgh]]){{efn|group=Scotland|Newtown St Boswells was the administrative headquarters of the county council established in 1890.}}
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| [[Selkirkshire]]||[[Selkirk, Scottish Borders|Selkirk]]
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| {{flag|Shetland}}||[[Lerwick]]
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| [[Stirlingshire]]||[[Stirling]]
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| {{flag|Sutherland}}||[[Dornoch]]{{efn|group=Scotland|The headquarters of Sutherland County Council were at [[Golspie]] from 1890.}}
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| [[West Lothian (historic)|West Lothian]] (or Linlithgowshire) ||[[Linlithgow]]
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| [[Wigtownshire]]||[[Wigtown]]{{efn|group=Scotland|[[Stranraer]] became the administrative headquarters of the Wigtown county council in 1890, and was sometimes described as the "county town" thereafter.}}
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