Official Website of the County Grand Lodge of Glasgow

By the 1970's the geographical spread of the Orange Order in Scotland needed a re-think on the structure and the Grand Lodge created "County Grand Lodges". Lodges are grouped into District Lodges and they in turn into these wider "County Grand Lodge" jurisdictions then  the national Grand Lodge.

Geographical counties as such no longer  essentially exist in much of Scotland today but  it was different back then so the 4 County Grand Lodges cover a wider provincial area. They are as follows.

Glasgow: Covering the city and greater Glasgow area including Rutherglen,  Dumbarton, Kelvin Valley and Cambuslang.

Ayr, Argyle Renfrewshire: The west of Scotland beyond Glasgow, the southwest and part of lower west Highlands.

Central Scotland: As it suggests, around  the former Lanarkshire and central area of the country.

East: Again as the name suggests, from the Borders to Aberdeen.

Glasgow remains the largest and main base for the Order north of the Border and during Victorian times as well as much of the 20th century a number of leading Glasgow businessmen, churchmen and politicians were Orangemen