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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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United Kingdom constituencies (redirect from Burgh Constituency)
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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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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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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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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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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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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noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (c.1160–1206) had the surname de Burgh which was gaelicised in Irish...
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Sir Uilleag (Ulick) de Burgh (Burke), 1st Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar (English: /ˈjuːlɪk dəˈbɜːr ... klænˈrɪkɑːrd/ YOO-lik də-BUR ... klan-RIK-ard;...
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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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