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There are several lochs in the county, none of which are particularly large. They include Loch Dallas, Loch Noir, the Lochs of Little
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of Elgin was deemed capable of providing its own county-level local government functions, and so it was excluded from the administrative area of the county council, although the county council still chose to base itself there. Elginshire County
Council held its first meeting on 22 May 1890 at the Old
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Moray County
Council was initially based at the Old Courthouse adjoining Elgin Sheriff Court on the High Street in Elgin. By the 1930s it was too small and so was demolished and replaced by a new headquarters on the same site, called the 'County Buildings'. Work began on the new building in 1938 but
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At a meeting on 7 May 1919, Elginshire County
Council voted to change the name of the county from the County of Elgin or Elginshire to Moray. The government responded by directing all departments to use Moray, but noted that the legal name would remain Elgin until such time as it could be changed by
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being transferred to a county they actually bordered, and parish and county boundaries being adjusted to eliminate cases where parishes straddled county boundaries. There were several such changes affecting the boundaries of
Elginshire, notably absorbing three detached parts of Nairnshire which were
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saw the burgh of Elgin brought within the administrative area of the county council, and merged the county councils of Moray and neighbouring
Nairnshire for most purposes. The two county councils continued to be elected as separate bodies, but operated together as the "Joint County Council of Moray
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are still used for some statistical purposes, and separate census figures are published for them. As their areas have been largely unchanged since the 19th century this allows for comparison of population figures over an extended period of time. From 1845 to 1930, parishes formed part of the local
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The shire of Elgin, or
Elginshire, was seen as the core of the old territory of Moray and so was informally sometimes called Moray or Morayshire. 'Murrayshire' and 'Morrowshire' were sometimes used historically as alternate spellings.
484:. The Moray district became one of the new council areas. The boundaries of the pre-1975 county of Moray are still used for some limited official purposes connected with land registration, being a
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organised a competition to design a flag for the lieutenancy area. The winning design is green, gold and blue, representing the area's agriculture and links to the sea.
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History of the Province of Moray: Comprising the Counties of Elgin and Nairn, the Greater Part of the County of Inverness and a Portion of the County of Banff
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were established for each shire, which would serve as the main administrative body for the area until the creation of county councils in 1890. Following the
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1340:"Elgin Sheriff Court including boundary wall and railings, High Street and Glover Street, Elgin (LB30778)"
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of 6 May 1927 as "the most beautiful county arms in Scotland", represented the
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This article is about the County of Moray. For the council area, see
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1872:"Map of the Parish of Inveravon in the Historical County of Banff"
1365:. Edinburgh: Royal College of Physicians. 1892. pp. xxiii–xxx
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27:"Elginshire" redirects here. For the electoral constituency, see
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and Nairn", serving the combined area of the two counties.
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Elected county councils were established in 1890 under the
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Guide to local government in parishes, counties and burghs
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In 1861 there were 15 civil parishes entirely in Moray:
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Lachlan Shaw and James Frederick Skinner Gordon (1882)
1617:"Mr Stuart opens new County Buildings: Elgin ceremony"
1540:"Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929: Section 10"
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The 1889 Act also led to a review of boundaries, with
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were transferred from Inverness-shire to Elginshire.
1265:. Moray and Nairn Family History Society. p. 15
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in the far south. Notable features of the coast are
1177:"Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947, Section 127"
1411:"Elginshire County Council: Getting into harness"
1391:. London: F. Warne and Company. 1890. p. 284
353:(reigned 1124–1153), but the earliest documented
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1771:(1973 ed.). Heraldry Today. pp. 77–78.
1036:The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707
1810:"Elginshire: Old and New Statistical Accounts"
1130:. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. pp. 257–262
1099:The History of the Province of Moray: Volume 1
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870:List of listed buildings in Edinkillie, Moray
303:(early Scotland), sometimes functioning as a
1737:"The Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996"
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1674:"Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994"
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397:: The county's main courthouse, built 1866.
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1069:A History of Moray and Nairn
609:Lossiemouth and Branderburgh
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1705:"Land Mass Coverage Report"
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1595:Aberdeen Press and Journal
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1292:. University of St Andrews
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254:. There is also a Moray
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1415:Moray and Nairn Express
1183:. The National Archives
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