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 Clydesdale RFC are a South Lanarkshire rugby union club who compete in the of the Scottish Rugby Union leagues. They are currently expanding their Senior and Junior rugby set-ups. Formation The rugby club was formed in 1977 as a rugby team of ...

, 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 Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club (abbreviated to Clydesdale ARC, or CARC) is Scotland's largest rowing club, located on the River Clyde in the centre of Glasgow. It is successful each year in many events at the Scottish Rowing Championships and i ...

, a rowing club in Glasgow *

Toowoomba Clydesdales The Toowoomba Clydesdales are a rugby league football club based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. The Clydesdales originally played in the Queensland Cup from the competition's inception in 1996 until 2006, and were the feeder club for the ...

, 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 Bank ( gd, Banca Dhail Chluaidh) is a trading name used by Clydesdale Bank plc for its retail banking operations in Scotland. In June 2018, it was announced that Clydesdale Bank's holding company CYBG would acquire Virgin Money for ...

* Clydesdale (retailer), a defunct Scottish electrical retailer *

Clydesdale Junction Railway The Clydesdale Junction Railway company was formed to build a railway connecting Motherwell and Hamilton with Glasgow, in Scotland. Conceived for local journeys, it was used by the main line Caledonian Railway to get access to Glasgow, and was so ...

, former railway operator

Politics

Clydesdale (Scottish Parliament constituency) Clydesdale (Gaelic: ''Dail Chluaidh'') is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the po ...

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) Clydesdale was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. In the latter year, as part of a major reorganisation of Scottish constituencies, it was redistributed to Dum ...

, 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 South Lanarkshire Council ( gd, Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1b ...

: **

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 North is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. It elects three councillors. Its territory in historic Clydesdale covers the small market town of Lanark plus Kirkfieldbank, and a rural hinterland ...

Clydesdale South (ward) Clydesdale South is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. It elects three councillors. Its territory covers a primarily rural area in western Clydesdale bisected by the M74 motorway; the largest settlem ...

Clydesdale West (ward) Clydesdale West is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, it elects four councillors. Its territory covers the small town of Carluke and the surrounding rural area which includes the villa ...

People

Alec Clydesdale Alexander McAllister Clydesdale MBE (16 July 1875 – 24 January 1947) was an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia, as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1921 to 1930 and as a member of ...

(1875–1947), Australian politician *

David T. Clydesdale David T. Clydesdale (born 1954) is an American musical artist, songwriter, arranger, and conductor. A recipient of a Grammy Award and Dove Award, he has received five gold record certifications, and one platinum record. Since 1974, he has collabo ...

(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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