Central Scotland

Central Scotland may refer to:

  • Central Belt, the area of highest population density in Scotland, also known as the "Midlands" or "Scottish Midlands"
  • Central Lowlands, a geologically-defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland
  • Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region), one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament
  • Central Region, Scotland, a local government region of Scotland 1975-1996
  • Centre of Scotland, the geographical centre of Scotland, located in the Highlands

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or scotland:

    “When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,—muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Four and twenty at her back
    And they were a’ clad out in green;
    Tho the King of Scotland had been there
    The warst o’ them might hae been his Queen.

    On we lap and awa we rade
    Till we cam to yon bonny ha’
    Whare the roof was o’ the beaten gold
    And the floor was o’ the cristal a’.”
    —Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 21–28)