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other burghs including Edinburgh, Stirling, Dunfermline, Haddington, Perth, Dumfries, Jedburgh, Montrose, Rutherglen and Lanark. Most of the burghs granted...24 KB (2,866 words) - 18:32, 15 July 2024
royal burghs. Most royal burghs were either created by the Crown, or upgraded from another status, such as burgh of barony. As discrete classes of burgh emerged...19 KB (1,992 words) - 09:29, 31 July 2024- Montrose Burghs: 1842 Montrose Burghs by-election, a Montrose Burghs election in the 1840s 1855 Montrose Burghs by-election, a Montrose Burghs election...823 bytes (115 words) - 16:06, 23 March 2023
until 1975. During this period four burghs were also counties, or counties of cities in Scotland. These four burghs were counties of cities, being independent...40 KB (690 words) - 22:17, 10 August 2024- large and small burghs. While large burghs became largely independent of the county councils of the county in which they lay, small burghs lost many of their...3 KB (181 words) - 00:00, 4 December 2023
the burghs of Ayr and Irvine were parliamentary burghs, represented as components of Ayr Burghs. In 1832 Kilmarnock became a parliamentary burgh, to be...41 KB (3,737 words) - 17:44, 23 August 2024
of royal burgh. Many different types of burghs existed in Scotland, including royal burghs, burghs of barony and regality, parliamentary burghs and police...46 KB (771 words) - 12:10, 24 August 2024- Anstruther Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House...11 KB (305 words) - 08:06, 15 July 2024
- Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election 1862 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election 1875 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election 1892 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election 1921 Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election...485 bytes (93 words) - 11:16, 22 June 2019
- Government (Scotland) Act 1889, there were 26 burghs which were excluded from county council control. Many other burghs were within the area controlled by county...5 KB (402 words) - 02:49, 21 March 2023
administration comprising counties, counties of cities, large burghs and small burghs. With effect from 16 May 1975 and until 31 March 1996 the local...36 KB (1,064 words) - 12:25, 24 August 2024- under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 46). This act enabled existing royal burghs, burghs of regality, and burghs of barony to...15 KB (930 words) - 09:15, 21 July 2024
- A burgh of barony was a type of Scottish town (burgh). Burghs of barony were distinct from royal burghs, as the title was granted to a landowner who,...3 KB (381 words) - 04:06, 9 August 2024
- the type of burgh concerned. The Scottish burghs were abolished in 1975. Burghs produced many types of historical records. Medieval burghs started to appear...2 KB (259 words) - 16:47, 14 November 2023
- (MPs) from Scotland to be elected from districts of burghs. All the parliamentary burghs (burghs represented in the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland)...13 KB (546 words) - 18:13, 15 August 2024
for minor local government functions. Large burghs: The 1929 Act constituted twenty burghs as "large burghs". These towns were largely independent from...46 KB (561 words) - 22:42, 9 March 2024- The Convention of Royal Burghs, more fully termed the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, was a representative assembly which protected the privileges...21 KB (2,630 words) - 08:08, 17 October 2020
- Northern Burghs may refer to: Tain Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain, 1708 to 1801, and of the Parliament...336 bytes (81 words) - 17:04, 23 May 2015
- 55.674°N 3.782°W / 55.674; -3.782 Lanark Burghs (also known as Linlithgow Burghs) was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the...10 KB (312 words) - 01:29, 4 October 2023
Clyde Burghs, also known as Glasgow Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to...7 KB (259 words) - 08:04, 15 July 2024
- burghs plural of burgh Brughs
- became nominal lord of the immense Irish estates of the De Burghs (Fifteenth Cent. Chron.) De Burgh’s widow married Ralph Ufford, justiciar of Ireland (d. 1346)
- James Burgh (1714–1775) was a British Whig politician whose book Political Disquisitions set out an early case for free speech and universal suffrage
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