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	Knowledge Base Gazetteer of Scottish Places
		In 1898 the parish was absorbed by Paisley (burgh) parish.
		A town, until 1975 in the county of Fife, a royal burgh, and a police burgh from 1834 until it was annexed by the neighbouring burgh of Kirkcaldy in 1930.
		A town, until 1975 in the county of Fife, and a police burgh from 1864 until it combined with the neighbouring burgh of Earlsferry to form the small burgh of Elie and Earlsferry between 1930 and 1975.
	www.scan.org.uk /knowledgebase/search/gazetteer_freetext_results_3.asp (11711 words)

	TheGlasgowStory - Early times to 1560 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The burgh remained small during the medieval period, its population probably not exceeding 1,500 inhabitants.
		The burgh's economic reach must also have been enhanced when the see of Glasgow became an archbishopric in 1492, the territorial jurisdiction of the Glasgow bishops' court thereby being extended to cover the dioceses of Argyll, Dunblane, Dunkeld and Galloway.
		As for the bailies of the burgh, the sitting magistrates and council were required to produce a short list each year from which the superior chose these officers.
	www.theglasgowstory.com /storya.php (1509 words)

	Vision of Britain \| Administrative Units Typology \| Status definition: Small Burgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1930 burghs were divided into counties of cities, large burghs and small burghs.
		In 1930 (under the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929) burghs were divided into counties of cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee), large burghs, and small burghs.
		Burghs were abolished in 1975 and replaced by district councils, which in turn were replaced by current local authorities in 1996.
	www.visionofbritain.org.uk /types/status_page.jsp?unit_status=SBu (92 words)

	Visit Scottish Burghs on a small group tour of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The most important burghs were the King's burghs, or 'royal burghs' as they came to be called, holding their privileges direct from the King.
		Latest of the older burgh kirks is that of Elie, founded in the seventeenth century and having a delightful campanile or bell-tower added by Sir John Anstruther at his own expense in 1726.
		But almost more important to the character of the burghs are groups and streets of old houses, which, while by no means lacking in individual merit, achieve distinction by their overall effect of continuity and orderly design.
	www.visitaberfeldy.50megs.com /scottish-burghs.htm (1800 words)

	Story of the Royal Burgh of North Berwick
		In 1434, the land was divided between the prioress and nuns of the North Berwick Abbey and the burgesses of the town.
		To the west was Ferry Gate and to the east the Rhodes, a rocky outcrop with an anchorage in the bay.
		Some of this exclusiveness the royal burghs had experienced waned after 1660, when fairs and markets began to proliferate where there were no burghs at all, and after 1672 the royal burghs lost practically the whole of their monopoly of foreign commerce.
	www.northberwick.org.uk /story.html (10608 words)

	THE THIRD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT GRANGEMOUTH, STIRLINGSHIRE
		Grangemouth is a small burgh in terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1947 and a water supply authority within the meaning and for the purposes of the Water (Scotland) Acts, 1946 to 1949.
		The Bowhouse area of the burgh has been supplied with water by the Stirlingshire and Falkirk Water Board but when the burgh boundaries were extended into the area in May 1961 the town council applied to supply the area with water.
		Indeed the rateable value, in terms of population of the burgh in May 1961, was £56.87 for each person, a figure considerably higher than that of all the large burghs of Scotland.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /tom.paterson/places/stat3_gran1.htm (9343 words)

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		The Burgh of Govan, to the south-west of the City, establishes the Govan Burgh Police.
		They wear a small anchor on their collar and the cost of the division is borne by the Clyde Navigation Trust.
		The small Renfrewshire burgh of Kinning Park, adjacent to the south-western boundary of the City, became a Lanarkshire Burgh and immediately formed the Kinning Park Burgh Police.
	gphs1800.tripod.com /First100Years.html (716 words)

	Earlsferry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Burgh of Earlsferry is a small burgh in Fife, Scotland, situated within the East Neuk beside Chapel Ness on the north coast of the Firth of Forth eight miles east of Leven and abutting the village of Elie, with which it was formally merged in 1929.
		Earlsferry was made a Royal Burgh in 1373 and became an important ferry port and fishing village; the harbour was destroyed in a storm in 1766, by which time Elie had its own harbour.
		The two villages now largely share shops and other facilities, but they do retain a flavour of their historical identities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earlsferry (181 words)

	Richard Brough Family Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Roll of Edward III (1327-1377) Walter de Burgh, Earl of Ulster (brother of Lord Hubert) bore, or, a cross gules, the ancient arms of Bigod, Earl of Norfolk; Ashmole Roll.
		On oath, Elizabeth said that she was "the daughter of Ada, who was the daughter of Lord Wm de Burgh." The small letter "M'--with which Ada became Adam--made so large a difference to her status, primary giving her presumed male descent into family estates, many occupied by other de Burghs of Lord William's kin.
		The de Knightley's were challenged in court by the unseated de Burghs, the legality of their claims upheld in Awards made to them of compensatory Fines and clauses of future inheritance should the de Knightleys fail in male heirs.
	www.broughfamily.org /other_coat_of_arms.html (709 words)

	WECAN! Places of Interest in Fife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A small royal burgh on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.
		A small local history museum situated in the remains of the 14th Century Grey Friars Hospitum.
		Small community-led museum dedicated to exploring the rich industrial and social heritage of the town of Methil.
	www.wecan.org.uk /directory/places.html (677 words)

	Chris de Burgh - Biography - AOL Music
		An art rocker who occasionally writes pop-oriented material, Chris de Burgh has never been as popular in his native Britain or the United States as he was in other areas of the world.
		His debut, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, was a folk-tinged stab at fantasy in the tradition of the Moody Blues that failed to chart upon its release in February of 1975.
		That Christmas season, a re-release of de Burgh's 1976 holiday song "A Spaceman Came Travelling" became a Top 40 hit in the U.K. Flying Colours, his follow-up to Into the Light, entered the British charts at number one upon its 1988 release, yet it failed to make the American charts.
	music.aol.com /artist/chris-de-burgh/4057/biography (432 words)

	Hadrian's Wall Walk 2004: Burgh-by-Sands to Brampton
		There was a small "lay-by" indent of tarmac, and next to it the first Hadrian's Wall sign I had seen, so it was pretty much, here you go, good luck.
		While we worked that element of things out I sat at the small bar area and had a half-cider, and was drawn into a conversation with a man at the end of the bar.
		He had a small mustache and was — the word came to me later — erudite.
	www.armchairnews.com /hadrian/burghbysands.html (2188 words)

	Welcome to Burgh House - Residential Home For The Elderly
		Burgh House is a two-storey building set in the rural landscape of coastal Norfolk.
		With thirty-one single bedrooms, each having its own en-suite bathroom, we are big enough to ensure that there's always something going on but small enough to promote close relationships between residents and staff.
		Our aim is to help you lead as full a life as possible in a warm, friendly and caring environment.
	www.burghhouse.co.uk (205 words)

	FORRES (surveyed in 1868)
		Forres sits on a small tributary of the River Findhorn, beneath the Cluny and Sanquhar Hills, in the county of Moray in north-east Scotland.
		It has been suggested that the burgh is on the site of 'Varis', a settlement shown on Ptolemaic maps of Roman Britain from circa AD140, which predate the first records of Scots Gaels.
		Like its neighbour Elgin, Forres was one of Scotland's earliest royal burghs, chartered by David I in either AD 1130 or 1150, and also like Elgin, its location made it susceptible to attack during Highland-Lowland feuds, and the town was burned by the Wolf of Badenoch in 1390.
	www.nls.uk /digitallibrary/map/townplans/background/forres.html (818 words)

	Northern Constabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unlike most other Burghs in the Highlands the County of Dornoch never had its own separate Force, but this is hardly surprising in view of the Burgh's small population.
		As early as 1840 the Burgh of Wick, County Town of Caithness, was employing a policeman to assist the Town Officer during the Herring Fishing Season.
		The County of Nairn, east of Inverness, was a small and fairly self-contained one.
	www.northern.police.uk /generate.php?pgwanted=aboutus (1289 words)

	The Ear Doctor
		The small landing at the top was unlit, the inner door firmly locked.
		On it, a notice, later decoded, to the effect that the clinic was closed in support of the Korean doctors' dispute with the government.
		At that very moment a woman appeared around the side of the place, towing a small child whose face was contorted with rage and outrage...
	thormay.net /koreadiary/eardoctor.html (4000 words)

	Maiori, neapolitan coast, S. Maria delle Grazie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first burgh encountered after leaving the quarter of S. Pietro is S. Maria delle Grazie (Saint Mary of the Graces).
		The economy of this small burgh of Maiori, with its many lemon groves, is still based on agricultural activities.
		The town church is worth visiting; the church is situated on the banks of the Reginna Maior river and historians trace the present structure to an ancient sixth century Basilica.
	www.ecostieramalfitana.it /comunedimaiori/santmary.htm (154 words)

	Green Witchcraft
		A small well (pictured above), on the eastern corner of the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, marks the spot where, over a timespan of 250 years, 300 women accused of witchcraft, were burned to death.
		Forfar was a typical small Scottish burgh in the seventeenth century.
		Any museum in any Scottish burgh will have thumbscrews and a branks, or scold’s bridle as it is also known, a device for depressing the tongue and keeping suspects quiet.
	uk.msnusers.com /GreenWitchcraft/scotland.msnw (1670 words)

	Hampstead Museum/Burgh House Welcome Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This showed that Hamestede (meaning homestead) was centered on a small farm, which was valued at fifty shillings.
		With the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII the priory was closed and soon after the Manor was transferred from the Abbey into lay hands.
		The waters could still be drunk as the fountain; basin and fittings were removed from the Pump Room and installed in a building next to the Wells Tavern.
	www.burghhouse.org.uk /pages/hampsteadhistory.html (1051 words)

	Council Records
		In November, 1790 the records show that the council built a slaughterhouse in the burgh with cattle yards attached and it was ordained that no cattle should be slaughtered unless in the place provided for such a purpose.
		Many of the Free Church members were party to the pressure for Burgh Reform in 1817 and would seem to have been "ag'in the Government" in many ways and were indignant that they were not allowed to run their own affairs and bury whom they liked in their own God's Acre.
		In April 1860 the council met and agreed that the Burgh Police and the County Police Force should merge and Councillor James Murdoch was appointed to represent Maybole on the Police Committee for the County.
	www.maybole.org /history/books/carrickscapital/councilrecords.htm (6218 words)

	New Towns From Old: Wheeler & Sproson's Postwar Burgh Redevelopment Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was invited by the town council in June 1952 to prepare a layout on an elongated rectangle of land (consisting of narrow garden strips) parallel to the High Street.
		But, vitally, this was now nested into the context setting of an old burgh: the development, although 'contemporary in concept', was to echo the 'atmosphere of the street architecture of the old town', including use of some pantiles, random rubble stonework and paving.
		The small Leslie development kick-started the firm's architectural career in the field of housing and heralded in over twenty years of their near dominance in the design of small-to-medium scale housing intervention in the heart of Fife's historic burghs.
	www.scottisharchitecture.com /new-articles-00072.html (1381 words)

	Dolceacqua
		a jewel of lightness in a small extraordinary and picturesque burgh..
		Antony's Parish church is very important in the small burgh: the interiors are decorated with stuccowork and marble and here we can admire a sixteenth-century icon by Ludovico Brea showing in its centre the image of St. Devota of Dolceaqua.
		Rossese is celebrated as wine to denomination of driven origin, produced in a small quantity, around 2000 hl.
	www.doit.it /HelloRiviera/dolceacqua.uk.html (725 words)

	Friends of Dundee City Archives - Veere micro-site - background papers
		These and other sources make it clear that the burgh was small: an area bounded by the line from the Seagate bus-station north to St Andrew's Glasite Hall, where we are meeting, west to the Steeple Church and south to the shoreline which was closer in than it is today.
		As a result, ships and small boats - which could go upriver or land on a beach - were widely used since they could carry larger loads and use the wind as a source of power.
		We know also that Mayflower carried a small boat known as her "shallop", used to explore the coast, to carry goods between ship and shore, etc. It is therefore likely to be a typical small general-purpose vessel of her time.
	www.fdca.org.uk /veere/veere_15.htm (2669 words)

	Agriturismo.it - Room Only - in Apartments at grosseto
		The farm house is composed of three apartments: “Casa Carola” and “Casa di Olinto”, in the small rural burgh “La Cava”, nearby the farm, while “Casetta Le Calle” is 2 Km.
		You can reach the first floor through an internal and a typical external stairs; at this level a double bedroom and a twin bedroom (double on request) with a bathroom and a shower are available.
		Casa di Carola: located in the astonishing rural burgh, the flat (with air-conditioning) includes a living room with a cooking area and a typical “Maremma style” fireplace, a double bedroom, a twin bedroom (double on request) and one bathroom with shower.
	www.agriturismo.it /LeCalle/enalloggi.shtml (245 words)

	knithist
		This describes Sanquhar burgh at the opening of the 18th century, a century which was to see the return of peace and prosperity to the valley and the development of a knitting tradition which has survived until today.
		Visits to the Royal Burgh of Sanquhar by dignitaries and royalty, as well as honours conferred on people, have all been commemorated by the naming of a pattern or the presentation of a pair of gloves.
		There are a small number of family names in Sanquhar Burgh which recur in connection with the Sanquhar glove, suggesting the kinship links which ensured the survival of the patterns.
	www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk /knithist.html (2006 words)

	English Setting Authors - Sim to Small
		Simon de Burgh was infuriating -- full of raw power and male conviction, even when Bethia had him bound hand and foot, deep in her forest lair.
		Dunstan de Burgh, Baron of Wessex, had ofttimes heard himself likened to a wolf on the prowl: fierce, brave and ever-alert to danger.
		Kate Courtland is determined to wreak revenge upon the Marquis of Wroth, the man said to have compromised her sister, but when she waylays him at gunpoint, both the lady and the nobleman end up with more than they bargained for.
	www.romancereaderatheart.com /england/SimSmall.html (6676 words)

	Pend House History
		The Pend House is at the heart of the small Royal Burgh of Whithorn, which is best known for its Priory, and for the archaeological excavations, which, in the last ten years, have analysed the Christian settlement from the 5th Century AD.
		The burgh of Whithorn still has its mediaeval street pattern, but is now an Outstanding Conservation Area, full of brightly painted Georgian houses.
		The coast is only two or three miles distant at this southernmost point of the Machars peninsula, so you may wish to visit the picturesque Solway port at the Isle of Whithorn, or at the fishing village of Port William.
	www.pend-house.com /visitor_attractions.htm (353 words)

	Scotland BicycleTours
		Travel through the small villages and fertile farming land of the Vale of Strathmore to Newtyle.
		Continue by the river to the small village of Weem.
		There are fine views of the Tay valley before you descend to meet the river at the small burgh of Newburgh.
	www.travel-innovations.com /scotlandbike.htm (4799 words)

	Visit to Fife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This small royal burgh is situated on the north shore of the Forth.
		King James VI granted Culross the status of Royal Burgh due to the influence of an important local resident, Sir George Bruce.
		We strolled through the narrow cobbled streets of the burgh to see many of the town's attractions.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.borthwick/LADAS/prog/01_fife.html (304 words)

	GENUKI - Westmorland - Brough
		The Town is now dwindled into a Village, which is defended with a small Fort, and is therefore called Burgh, and because there is another Village near it of the same Name, it is usually called Burgh under Stanmore, i.e.
		Here also stands the Castle of Burgh, and a Tower called Cesar's Tower, which is the Fort before mentioned.
		This Town and Lordship, with the Castle thereunto belonging, was a considerable Part of the Barony of Appleby, as appears from the first Gift of it to Robert de Vipont by King John, Reg.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/WES/Brough/index.htm (853 words)

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