Examples of 'burgh' in a sentence
Meaning of "burgh"
Burgh refers to a town or an incorporated municipality, especially one in Scotland or Northern England. It is typically used to describe a small, borough-like community with its own local government and administration
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- a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
- a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
- A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
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Burgh says that he has been commissioned.
The olympics cameron van der burgh.
Burgh was well known is his days.
There were two friaries in the burgh.
Of the burgh constituencies were districts of burghs.
The stronghold consisted of a fortified burgh with a suburbium.
The small burgh has been abandoned.
A body of six watchmen patrolled the burgh at night.
The burgh motto was retained.
Local government and royal burgh.
Perth remained a burgh constituency.
Royal burgh status in the town has long been disputed.
The governing body of a police burgh were the police commissioners.
A royal burgh had certain privileges granted by the king.
In the great burgh court.
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Burgh is inspired by this image.
Dornoch was appointed the head burgh of the shire.
Burgh had no issue.
I know everybody in this burgh.
Mary shows the old burgh to her aunt and uncle.
What was happening in every burgh.
Burgh were women.
There ai not enough marks in the whole burgh to eat that.
Hubert de Burgh refused to let him be mutilated.
Nor do they refer to the former district or to the royal burgh.
This came to be through the development of a burgh and port in the seventeenth century.
Renfrew was the only town in the county to hold status as a royal burgh.
This room takes its name from the burgh which arose from a quarter and the castle.
Maryhill is a former burgh.
Act in favour of the burgh of the Canongate.
War will mean you versus him and every bull in the burgh.
The town was a burgh in the historic county of Aberdeenshire.
A juicier new burgh.
The burgh of Kinross lies at its western end.
The grant of a market was the first ever official grant of a weekly market to a burgh.
A burgh is an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland.
Walls were therefore needed primarily on the south and east sides of the burgh.
Burgh was an active Freemason as a young man.
I will see you around the Burgh.
De Burgh was also a keen cricketer.
He demolished the castle works of de Burgh.
The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty.
Elizabeth de Burgh was placed under house arrest at a manor house in Yorkshire.
It was the former royal burgh of Scotland.
De Burgh came from a minor gentry family about which little is known.
The islands administrative center and only burgh is Lerwick.
The economic life of the burgh in early times was linked to nearby Falkland Palace.
It now covers a much larger region than the initial Burgh boundary.
It was rewarded Best of the Burgh twice and won several battles for the land.
Maulay claimed that he only gave up his tenure because of threats by de Burgh.
