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4 unusual facts about Central Belt


Central Belt

Central Scotland is a less well-defined term used to mean various things, including "Central Lowlands" and "Central Belt".

The area is often considered as the triangle defined by the M8, M80 motorway and M9 motorways stretching from Greenock and Glasgow in the west to Edinburgh in the east, encompassing towns such as Paisley, Cambuslang, Hamilton, Stirling, Falkirk, Cumbernauld, Livingston and Bathgate.

Central Scotland

Central Belt, the area of highest population density in Scotland, also known as the "Midlands" or "Scottish Midlands"

Leyland Panther Cub

12 of the 20 Manchester buses withstood up to a decade of further service in Australia whilst two worked in Scotland's Central Belt for nine years.


Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton

Over several months in 1992 to 1993, he acted as a temporary Sheriff Principal in the sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife, due to the indisposition of the incumbent Sheriff Principal.

Demography of Scotland

Around 70% of the country's population live in the Central Lowlands — region stretching in a northeast-southwest orientation between the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including major settlements such as Paisley, Stirling, Falkirk, Perth and Dundee.


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