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The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, in 1893.〔1892 c.55〕 "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'' (pronounced ''burruh'' ) 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'' ==Counties of cities== These four burghs were redesignated as Counties of Cities in 1930 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 Renfrewshire burghs in the years shown: *1846: Gorbals (private act 1808) *1891: Crosshill (police burgh 1871), Govanhill (police burgh 1876), Pollokshields (police burgh 1876), Pollokshields East (police burgh 1880), *1905: Kinning Park burgh (police burgh 1871), *1912: Govan burgh (burgh of barony 1607, police burgh 1864), Pollokshaws (burgh of barony 1813, police burgh 1858) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of burghs in Scotland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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