Place name suffix, indicating the site of a fortified place.

(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).

plural of burgh

A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.

(Scotland, historical) A burgh in Scotland, distinct from royal burghs in being granted to a landowner who, as a tenant-in-chief, held his estates directly from the crown.

plural of burgh of barony

(Scotland, historical) A type of Scottish burgh founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter; these were legally abolished in 1975.

(Scotland, historical) A burgh of a kind that existed from 1833 to 1975, constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police, the local authority being the police commissioners.

plural of royal burgh

plural of parliamentary burgh