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Perthshire

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Perthshire or Perth, former county, central Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Perthshire was divided between the Tayside and Central regions. In the local government reorganization of 1996, those regions were dissolved and the council area of Perth and Kinross, formed in large part from the former territory of Perthshire that had been incorporated in Tayside, was created.
Perthshire
(until 1975) a county of central Scotland, now part of Perth and Kinross council area


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The summer-house stood in grounds attached to a country seat in Perthshire, known by the name of Windygates.
About fifty paces off, another man, also appareled as a cavalier, was talking to a Scotch sentinel, and, though a foreigner, he seemed to understand without much difficulty the answers given in the broad Perthshire dialect.
 
 
 
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