burgh

IPA: bˈɝg

(Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
(UK) 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.

Examples of "burgh" in Sentences

Local government and royal burgh.
The name of this suspected burgh is unknown.
No indication that it was ever a police burgh.
The constituency covered the burgh of Paisley.
The most populous of the burghs was Kirkcaldy.
A burgh of barony is a type of Scottish town burgh .
As a royal burgh I imagine it must have been also a parliamentary burgh.
It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1540.
And if it was a burgh, as it seems to have been, what kind of burgh was it.
Where any of the merging towns was a royal burgh this status was to be continued in the united burgh.