The industrial belt ran across the country from southwest to northeast ; by 1900 the four industrialised counties of Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, and Ayrshire contained 44 per cent of the population.

" Shire " names in Scotland include Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, Cromartyshire, Dumfriesshire, Dunbartonshire, Inverness-shire, Kincardineshire, Kinross-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Morayshire, Nairnshire, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, and Wigtownshire

** West Central – Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Ayrshire, on the Isle of Bute and to the southern extremity of Kintyre.

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).

East Dunbartonshire also shares a border with West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, and North Lanarkshire.

The council area covers part of the former county of Stirlingshire as well as parts of the former counties of Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire.

Services ran from and from the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway in the west through to and via Tollcross through to, Newton, and other Caledonian Railway destinations to the east of Glasgow.

Generally speaking, exclaves were abolished, the only significant exclave left untouched being the part of Dunbartonshire between Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire.

This was followed by the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway during the 1890s.

This Glasgow City Metropolitan Area includes places falling within the limits of the following local authorities: West Dunbartonshire ( Clydebank ), all of East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, all of East Renfrewshire and all of the City of Glasgow.

It borders Perthshire to the north, Clackmannanshire and West Lothian to the east, Lanarkshire to the south, and Dunbartonshire to the south-west.

Since 1996 the area of the former county has been part of the council areas of East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire and Stirling.

Since 1996 the area of the region has been divided between 12 council areas: Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City ( created as City of Glasgow ), Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, and West Dunbartonshire ( created as Dumbarton and Clydebank ), all created to be entirely within the area of the region.

* Highland Division ( Cities of Aberdeen and Dundee, counties of Aberdeenshire, Argyllshire, Banffshire, Buteshire, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dunbartonshire, Elginshire, Fife, Forfarshire, Inverness-shire, Kinross-shire, Nairnshire, Renfrewshire, Shetland, Stirlingshire, Sutherland and part of Lanarkshire )

* East Dunbartonshire: Bearsden and Milngavie District, Strathkelvin District less area around Chryston formerly in the county of Lanarkshire

The line was built to carry iron ore from the Whitehaven area to Lanarkshire and was financed and operated by the Caledonian Railway of Scotland.

Although Saltcoats currently only has a single railway station, the town was once served by a second railway station to the north of the town, originally as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

* Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway from Newton to the Clyde Coast at Ardrossan.

* 1891-Bowling to Dumbarton Central opened by Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway ;

The majority of these lines were absorbed by ( or were subsidiaries of ) the North British Railway ; the exceptions being the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway, which was part of the Caledonian Railway, and the western part of the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway ( which was joint between the North British and the Caledonian ).

This tunnel joins the original Kelvinhaugh Tunnel on the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire Railway from, just South of Kelvinhaugh Street ; finally meeting the disused Stobcross Depot Tunnel on the Glasgow Central Railway, just inside the common South East portal of these two tunnels.

The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between and Glasgow at Elvanfoot.

The station was renamed Uplawmoor after the closure of the Uplawmoor station on the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway on 2 April 1962.

In 1888, a second railway station,, was opened on the new Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway ; however, this line had a short life span and the station closed in 1932.

Category: Railway stations in North Lanarkshire

Kilbirnie South railway station served Kilbirnie as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway ( L & AR ).

The Cathcart Circle Lines are formed of lines built by the Cathcart District Railway ( Cathcart Circle ) and the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway ( Newton and Neilston lines ).

Built by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

Also built by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

These specifications mostly occur in non-European contexts – such as the coat of arms of Nunavut and the former Republic of Bophuthatswana, with the arms of North Dakota ( as distinguished from its seal ) providing an even more unusual example, while the State of Connecticut specifies a " rococo " shield – but not completely, as the Scottish Public Register records an escutcheon of oval form for the Lanarkshire Master Plumbers ' and Domestic Engineers ' ( Employers ') Association, and a shield of square form for the Anglo Leasing organisation.

* Philips Lighting: sales from Guildford and manufacture in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.

The most conspicuous survivals are the many Pictish stones that are located all over Pictland, from Inverness to Lanarkshire.

David Livingstone also lived in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire from 1862 for a short time.

The annual meeting was staged as part of the annual Lanarkshire Show and featured riders from across Scotland.

Category: People from North Lanarkshire

It was later part of the county of Lanarkshire and subsequently an independent burgh from 1964 to 1975.

Category: People from South Lanarkshire

While the Lanarkshire mine strike was a failure, Hardie's energy and activity shone and he accepted a call from Ayrshire to relocate there to organise the local miners.

are a football club from Larkhall, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Category: People from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

* Albion Rovers F. C., a Scottish Football League team from the North Lanarkshire town of Coatbridg

Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, are a Scottish football club from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire.

Paisley is the main site for the modern University of the West of Scotland, which was created from a merger between the University of Paisley and Bell College in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.

Category: People from South Lanarkshire

The three acute hospitals in Lanarkshire can also be reached by bus from Motherwell:

As well as the town's Country Park, The North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, formerly the Motherwell Heritage Centre on High Road, situated next to the town's railway station, is a building that displays the history of Motherwell from the Roman era.

The Lanarkshire Eagles staged open meetings from July to September 1950.

Hunter wrote a play The Disinherited which was performed by people drawn from the mining community of Douglas Water in Lanarkshire.

Category: People from South Lanarkshire

Category: People from North Lanarkshire