- The small burgh of Falkland, Fife, created a royal burgh in 1458 and a police burgh in the 1890s. The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into...
- Built in 1828 (Leith became an independent burgh in 1833) this was the original Leith Town Hall.
- Some of the older collections came to the museum from Starbank House while others were transferred from Leith Museum Trust in 2003. ... The burgh of Leith.
- Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918.
- (redirected from Burgh of Leith) Also found in: Dictionary. ... As a strategically located port, Leith was the object of contention in several struggles.
- Title: Report on the Burgh of Leith [contd.] Imprint: [London : House of Commons, 1832]. Shelfmark ... View accompanying map of Leith.
- The Burgh of Leith being like other burghs in Scotland entitled to redeem its land tax made certain payments with that object.
- Although possessing a somewhat exaggerated reputation for seediness and crime, Leith has been undergoing a major revival since the 1980s with many of the...
- The burgh of Leith was for many years separated from Edinburgh itself and to this day retains it’s own identity.
- Since the Burgh of Leith officially merged with the City of Edinburgh in 1920, Leith has staunchly continued to maintain its own individual character.
- In 1827 Leith became a Burgh as Edinburgh was, this lasted for a short time as in 1920 Edinburgh took over.
- As well as the exhibition, a book called The Past Lives of Leith explores what lif would have been like in the burgh 600 years ago.
- The seal of the burgh of Leith, which can be found on lampposts and buildings around the area.
