Registration Counties

County	Abbreviation	Usage Notes	Operational date in Land Register
Aberdeen	ABN		1^st April 1996
Angus	ANG		1^st April 1999
Argyll	ARG		1^st April 2000
Ayr	AYR		1^st April 1997
Berwick	BER		1^st October 1999
Banff	BNF		1^st April 2003
Bute	BUT		1^st April 2000
Clackmannan	CLK		1^st October 1992
Caithness	CTH		1^st April 2003
Dumbarton	DMB		4^th October 1982
Dumfries	DMF		1^st April 1997
East Lothian	ELN		1^st October 1999
Fife	FFE		1^st April 1995
Glasgow	GLA		30^th September 1985
Inverness	INV		1^st April 2002
Kincardine	KNC		1^st April 1996
Kinross	KNR		1^st April 1999
Kirkcudbright	KRK		1^st April 1997
Lanark	LAN		3^rd January 1984
Midlothian	MID		1^st April 2001
Moray	MOR		1^st April 2003
Nairn	NRN		1^st April 2002
Orkney and Zetland	OAZ	Land Register only	1^st April 2003
Orkney and Zetland	ORK	Sasines only	1^st April 2003
Peebles	PBL		1^st October 1999
Perth	PTH		1^st April 1999
Renfrew	REN		6^th April 1981
Ross and Cromarty	ROS		1^st April 2003
Roxburgh	ROX		1^st October 1999
Seabed	SEA		8^th December 2014
Selkirk	SEL		1^st October 1999
Stirling	STG		1^st April 1993
Sutherland	STH		1^st April 2003
Wigtown	WGN		1^st April 1997
West Lothian	WLN		1^st October 1993

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Land Register counties and operational dates

A list of the 34 counties of Scotland, as used in RoS.

RoS uses the pre-1974 county boundaries, ignoring the creation of the 12 Scottish regions in 1974. Note that there are variations between modern regional boundaries and the county boundaries used in RoS. (For example, parts of Aberdeen are in the county of Kincardine.) If you are in any doubt what registration county a particular town is in, refer to the page Localities and Post Towns in Scotland.

From the designated day (8^th December 2014), it has become possible for RoS to register the seabed of the territorial sea adjacent to Scotland in the new county, "SEA".