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 Scotl ...

, 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 name may also refer to:

Sports

* Clydesdale F.C., 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 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, an Australian rugby league team that takes its name from the horse breed

Animals

* Clydesdale horse, a breed of horse originating in the district of the same name ** Budweiser Clydesdales, 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 Harry Gwala is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The seat of Harry Gwala is Ixopo. The majority of its 298 392 people speak IsiZulu (2011 Census). The dis ...

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

Businesses

* Clydesdale Bank * 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 p ...

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 Scotl ...

, 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 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 othe ...

** 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'' {{disambiguation