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    A burgh (/ˈbʌrə/ BURR-ə) is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division...
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    A royal burgh (/ˈbʌrə/ BURR-ə) was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by...
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    Christopher John Davison (born 15 October 1948), known professionally as Chris de Burgh (English: /d ˈbɜːr/ d'-BER), is a British-Irish singer-songwriter and musician...
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    The House of Burgh (English: /bɜːr/; ber; French pronunciation: [buʁ]) or Burke (Irish: de Búrca; Latin: Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later...
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  • Johnstone Burgh Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and play in West of Scotland League Premier Division. The...
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    Elizabeth de Burgh (English: /dəˈbɜːr/ də-BUR; c. 1289 – 27 October 1327) was the second wife and only queen consort of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots...
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  • Thomas Burgh may refer to: Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough (c. 1431–1496), English peer and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1460 Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh (c...
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    Baron Burgh. Thomas Burgh, de jure 1st Baron Burgh (1431- 1496) Edward Burgh, de jure 2nd Baron Burgh (1464-1528) Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh (1488-1550)...
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  • England Baron Burgh Burgh Bypass Burgh Castle civil parish, Norfolk, England Burgh Castle Roman Site, at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England Burgh Heath, Surrey...
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    Burgh Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Burgh Castle is located 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south-west of Great Yarmouth and...
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    Burgh Island is a tidal island on the coast of South Devon in England near the small seaside village of Bigbury-on-Sea. There are several buildings on...
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    The Pollokshields Burgh Hall is a municipal building at the edge of Maxwell Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The burgh hall, which was briefly the headquarters...
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  • Large burgh was a type of municipal structure in Scotland, which existed from 1930 to 1975. When county councils had been established in 1890 under the...
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    Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in...
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  • "The Lady in Red" is a song by British-Irish singer-songwriter Chris de Burgh. It was released on 20 June 1986 as the second single from the album Into...
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  • William Burgh may refer to: William de Burgh (MP) (1741–1808), also called William Burgh, Irish landowner who opposed slavery William Burgh (MP for Lanesborough)...
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  • small burgh was a unit of local government in Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 in 1930. The Act reclassified existing burghs into...
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    The Burgh Island Hotel is a hotel on Burgh Island, Devon in England. In the 1890s, the music hall star George H. Chirgwin built a prefabricated wooden...
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    Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (English: /dəˈbɜːr/ də-BUR, French: [dəbuʁ]; c. 1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar...
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    or Bourke, was an Irish peer from the House of Burgh. De Burgh was the second son of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught and Egidia de Lacy. In...
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    either county or borough constituencies, except that in Scotland the term burgh is used instead of borough. Since the advent of universal suffrage, the...
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  • John Burgh may refer to: John Burgh I (fl. 1399), MP for Bodmin in 1399 John Burgh II (died 1434), MP for Surrey 1413–1416 John Burgh III (died 1436),...
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  • police burgh was a Scottish burgh which had adopted a "police system" for governing the town. They existed from 1833 to 1975. The first police burghs were...
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    Aberdeen (redirect from Burgh of Aberdeen)
    to have been settled for at least 6,000 years. Aberdeen received royal burgh status from David I of Scotland (1124–1153), which transformed the city...
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    Burgh House is a historic house located on New End Square in Hampstead, London, that includes the Hampstead Museum. The house is also listed as Burgh...
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  • as a burgh constituency. They are the successors of the historic parliamentary burghs of the Parliament of Scotland. In 1708 parliamentary burghs were...
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    Burgh by Sands (/ˈbrʌf/ ) is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, situated near the Solway Firth....
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    The discography of British-Irish musician Chris de Burgh consists of 24 studio albums, 9 compilation albums, 4 live albums, and 66 singles, along with...
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  • Sir Edward Burgh (pronounced "Borough"; died before April 1533) was the eldest son and heir to Sir Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh and his wife Agnes Tyrwhit...
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    Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and 3rd Baron of Connaught (English: /dəˈbɜːr/ də-BUR; Latinized to de Burgo; 1240 – 29 July 1326), called The...
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