Borough - Borough as a place name

A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, boroughs are also to be found in England and Northern Ireland. As a suffix, -borough (or -brough) appears in the name of a number of towns and cities in England; in the South of England it is usually found in the form -bury. The suffix -bury is also to be found in the New England region of the United States, whilst ...

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There is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Southwark simply called The Borough, south of London Bridge across the Thames from the City. There are several villages in England, such as those in Cumbria and the East Riding of Yorkshire, called Brough, pronounced [bɹʌf]. El Burgo in Spain is across the river Ucero from the smaller City of Osma; also in Spain lies the city of Burgos. See also below under the ...

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In its original Anglo-Saxon connection with its modern meaning, a borough was a number of households or an extended household, surrounded by a defensive wall. This might have been a stockade or a walled town. In place-names therefore, it can refer to the walled enclosure of a lord's hall or to a walled town. When the Five Burghs of the Danelaw were given that name, this was people's view of them. By the late medieval period, a charter from the king and a civic organization became more significant in defining a borough than the wall was. < ...

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Borough - Canada. In Quebec, the term borough is used as the formal translation into English of the French arrondissement, an administrative subdivision of a major city. Borough - United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, the name "borough" is applied to various different types of local government district. There are 32 London boroughs, which together with the City of London make up the Greater London area. One of the boroug ...

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The word borough has cognates in other Germanic languages. For example, burgh in Scots, burg in German, and borg in both Danish and Swedish; the equivalent word is also to be found in Frisian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Icelandic. The English borough and the Scots burgh are derived from the Old English word burh (with dialectal variants including burg, beorh, beorg, and byrig). The Old English word was originally used for a fortified town, and was related to the verb beorgan (cf. Dutch and German bergen), ...

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In many parts of England, "borough" is pronounced as IPA: /bʌɹə/ ( listen) as an independent word, and as /bɹə/ when forming a suffixal part of a place-name. As a suffix, "-brough" is usually pronounced /brə/. In the United States, "borough" is pronounced as /ˈbɝoʊ/ (or as See also:

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