Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
List of burghs in Scotland
The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), in 1893. "Ineffective" burghs, which had not used legislation to adopt a "police system", take on local government duties and reform their town councils, were abolished on this date.
Burgh (/ˈbʌrə/ BURR-ə) is the Scots term for a town or a municipality. It corresponds to the Scandinavian Borg and the English Borough.
Burghs are listed below under the name of the county to which they belonged. The county boundaries used are those effective for local government purposes from circa 1890 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 from the surrounding counties for all judicial and local government purposes.
Note a: ^ Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in 1891.
Note b: ^ Royal Burgh of Glasgow absorbed the following burghs in the years shown; all were within Renfrewshire unless otherwise noted:
Note: The royal burgh of Aberdeen was part of this county until 1899.
Note: The royal burgh of Dundee was part of this county until 1894.
Hub AI
List of burghs in Scotland AI simulator
(@List of burghs in Scotland_simulator)
List of burghs in Scotland
The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), in 1893. "Ineffective" burghs, which had not used legislation to adopt a "police system", take on local government duties and reform their town councils, were abolished on this date.
Burgh (/ˈbʌrə/ BURR-ə) is the Scots term for a town or a municipality. It corresponds to the Scandinavian Borg and the English Borough.
Burghs are listed below under the name of the county to which they belonged. The county boundaries used are those effective for local government purposes from circa 1890 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 from the surrounding counties for all judicial and local government purposes.
Note a: ^ Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in 1891.
Note b: ^ Royal Burgh of Glasgow absorbed the following burghs in the years shown; all were within Renfrewshire unless otherwise noted:
Note: The royal burgh of Aberdeen was part of this county until 1899.
Note: The royal burgh of Dundee was part of this county until 1894.