County of Bute

This article is about the county in Scotland. For the county in the United States, see Bute County, North Carolina.

"Buteshire" redirects here. For the Parliament of Scotland constituency, see Buteshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency). For the UK Parliament constituency, see Buteshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Bute Siorrachd Bhòid (Scottish Gaelic)
Historic county
Country	Scotland
County town	Rothesay
Area
• Total	225 sq mi (583 km2)
	Ranked 30th of 34
Chapman code	BUT

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The County of Bute (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhòid), also known as Buteshire, is a historic county and registration county of Scotland. It comprised a number of islands in the Firth of Clyde, between the counties of Argyll and Ayr, the principal islands being Bute, Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. The county town was Rothesay, located on the island of Bute. The County of Bute had its own elected county council from 1890 to 1975.

The historic County of Bute was divided between new council areas with implementation of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, on the 1 April 1996. The new Argyll and Bute Council area was given responsibility for island of Bute itself, while the island of Arran and The Cumbraes were added to the new North Ayrshire Council area.