Clydesdale is an archaic name for

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotlan ...

, a traditional county in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

. The name may also refer to:

Sports

Clydesdale F.C. Clydesdale F.C. was a nineteenth-century Glasgow-based football club, which was attached to Clydesdale Cricket Club. History The club was formed in 1872, in the wake of the Queen's Park F.C.. In 1873, Clydesdale was one of the teams to foun ...

, a former football club in Glasgow *

Clydesdale RFC, Glasgow Clydesdale RFC was a nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Glasgow-based rugby union club, who were attached to Clydesdale Cricket Club during the 1880s. Formation The rugby club was formed in 1889. For a short period before the Fi ...

, a former rugby union club * Clydesdale RFC, South Lanarkshire, a rugby union club *

Clydesdale Cricket Club Clydesdale Cricket Club is a sporting club situated at Titwood on the periphery of Pollokshields in the south of Glasgow. History The club was founded in Kinning Park in 1848 by Archibald Campbell. It was formed by members of two previous club ...

, a cricket club in Glasgow *

Clydesdale Harriers Clydesdale Harriers are an sport of athletics, athletics club, founded in 1885. It was Scotland's first amateur open athletics club with the object of promoting amateur athletics generally and cross country running in particular. History Foundat ...

, an athletics club in Clydebank * Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, a rowing club in Glasgow * Toowoomba Clydesdales, an Australian rugby league team that takes its name from the horse breed

Animals

Clydesdale horse The Clydesdale is a Scottish breed of draught horse. It is named for its area of origin, the Clydesdale or valley of the River Clyde, much of which is within the county of Lanarkshire. The origins of the breed lie in the eighteenth century, ...

, a breed of horse originating in the district of the same name **

Budweiser Clydesdales The Budweiser Clydesdales are a group of Clydesdale horses used for promotions and commercials by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company. There are several "hitches" or teams of horses, that travel around the United States and other countries that rem ...

, a group of Clydesdale horses used in Anheuser-Busch promotions *

Paisley terrier The Paisley Terrier was a breed of terrier- type dog that is now extinct. Originating in Scotland, the Paisley Terrier was bred primarily as a pet and showdog version of the Skye Terrier, and was the progenitor of today's Yorkshire Terrier. The b ...

, also known as the Clydesdale Terrier

Places

* Clydesdale, Nova Scotia, a community in Canada *

Clydesdale, KwaZulu-Natal Clydesdale is a town in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to ...

, a town in Sisonke District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Businesses

* Clydesdale Bank * Clydesdale (retailer), a defunct Scottish electrical retailer * Clydesdale Junction Railway, former railway operator

Politics

* Clydesdale (Scottish Parliament constituency) *

Clydesdale (district) Clydesdale (pronounced ; in Scottish Gaelic, ) was the name given to one of the nineteen districts of the Strathclyde region in Scotland from 1975 to 1996. The name is an archaic title for Lanarkshire, one of the traditional counties of Sco ...

, former government district in Strathclyde, Scotland (1975–1996) * Clydesdale (UK Parliament constituency), a former constituency of the House of Commons * Clydesdale, a current Synod of the Church of Scotland * Used in the name of four wards of South Lanarkshire Council: **

Clydesdale East (ward) Clydesdale East is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. It elects three councillors. Its territory covers a large, rural and sparsely populated area of southern and eastern Clydesdale, bordering four oth ...

** Clydesdale North (ward) ** Clydesdale South (ward) ** Clydesdale West (ward)

People

* Alec Clydesdale (1875–1947), Australian politician * David T. Clydesdale (born 1954), American musician * Marquess of Clydesdale, title of the eldest son of the

Duke of Hamilton Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in April 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that peerage (except for the Dukedom of Rothesay held by the Sovereign's eldest son), and as such its holder is the premier peer of Sco ...

Other uses

* The Clydesdale, an American alt country band * Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale and Col. T. R. Clydesdale, fictional characters in the film ''

The Apple Dumpling Gang ''The Apple Dumpling Gang'' is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold ...

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