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A borough is an administrative division in various countries.
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A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn.
The trackbed from Accrington to Baxenden is now a linear treelined cycleway / footpath. As of November 2011 Hyndburn borough council has plans to re-open the rail link to manchester.
A new feature-length documentary film by Edwin Pagan called Bronx Burning is in production in 2006, chronicling what led up to the numerous arson-for-insurance fraud fires of the 1970s in the borough.
Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).
The borough council is elected by the borough assembly ( Bezirksverordnetenversammlung ).
" Great White Way " is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square.
Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government.
In other places, such as Alaska, borough designates a whole region ; Alaska's largest borough, the North Slope Borough, is comparable in area to the entire United Kingdom.
In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.
In the United States, " borough " is pronounced or.
In Quebec, the term borough is generally used as the English translation of arrondissement, referring to an administrative division of a municipality.
In the United States, a borough is a unit of local government below the level of the state.
In Australia, the term " borough " is an occasionally used term for a local government area.
Currently there is only one borough in Australia, the Borough of Queenscliffe in Victoria, although there have been more in the past.
However, Neve Monosson is the first example of a full municipal borough actually declared under law by the Minister of the Interior, under a model subsequently adopted in Maccabim-Re ' ut as well.
It is the declared intention of the Interior Ministry to use the borough mechanism in order to facilitate municipal mergers in Israel, after a 2003 wide-reaching merger plan, which, in general, ignored the sensitivities of the communal settlements, and largely failed.
Three major arteries parallel to each other cut across the entire borough: Atlantic Avenue, which is a 6 lane 4 km avenue by the beachside, Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue and Barata Ribeiro / Raul Pompéia Street both of which are 4 lanes and 3. 5 km in length.
The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning " Pine District ", into Greenwich, a borough of London.
Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.
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In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.
In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.
Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.
Originally, VECs were formed for each administrative county and county borough, and also in a number of larger towns.
Upon the 2001 Berlin administrative reform, Rathaus Schöneberg became the town hall for the newly constituted borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.
The two divisions were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act 1888, with Ipswich becoming a county borough.
It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset.
Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.
* Antrim ( borough ), an administrative division
The main centres of population in the borough are Chingford in the north, Walthamstow in the centre ( and the administrative hub including the council offices ) and Leyton and Leytonstone to the South.
For administrative purposes, the borough is split into North and South Hillingdon with more industrial units to the south and residential suburban areas in the north.
In December 2011, the borough decided instead to end the link with a second German town, Emden, citing administrative problems.
It is also a civil parish with a designated Town Council within the administrative district ( and borough since 1984 ) of Dacorum.
In addition, borough officials requested that SEPTA “ test for PCVP contamination which would have a definite impact on whether the committee would recommend the redevelopment of the lot ,” and at some point Joseph Kelly, administrative assistant to Deon, “ indicated SEPTA is committed to cleaning up the site .”
The municipal building now houses the borough police department, borough offices, council chambers, a meeting room, fire department administrative headquarters, as well as room for future expansion.
It is the largest urban area in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees and the administrative centre of the borough.
Located near the northernmost tip of Warwickshire, Atherstone is close to the border with Staffordshire and Leicestershire and contains the administrative offices of the borough of North Warwickshire.
The administrative county was formed in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1888, and covered the historic West Riding except for the larger urban areas, which were county boroughs with the powers of both a municipal borough and a county council.
The bulk of the modern high-rise structures were built by Selvaag and completed in the first half of the 1970s, together with several schools, a subway line into central Oslo, and an administrative center for the borough.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation which is instead administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, canton, state, province or country.
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Abersychan now constitutes a community and electoral division of the county borough of Torfaen.
In 1832 the parliamentary borough of Finsbury was created, covering a considerably wider area, part of the Finsbury division of Ossultone hundred.
Outside of the borough, Pfizer's pharmaceutical division has a global campus.
Under the Reform Act 1832, West Bromwich became part of the new southern division of Staffordshire, and under the Reform Act 1867 it was transferred to the parliamentary borough of Wednesbury.
They will generally patrol a sub-division or whole division of a police force area or in the case of the Metropolitan Police Service, a borough.
In 1901 the borough adopted an unofficial coat of arms, consisting of a shield vertically divided blue and white, the division line being indented.
The second tier is usually the county ( called a borough in Alaska and a parish in Louisiana ), which is an administrative division of the state.
The area covered by the former village has been reclassified as a borough ( 町 "- machi " is often translated " town ," but the word " borough ," like 町 "- machi ," can mean either a division of a city or a town independent of any larger city: see the article on " Borough " for comparable usages ) within the City of Tamura.
They contest the five county electoral division seats that are within the borough.
Seven Kings has not historically formed a parish or other division ; instead it was part of the ancient parish of Ilford in the Becontree hundred of the county of Essex, which formed from 1894 the Ilford Urban District ( later municipal borough ).
Bristol was a " county of itself ", so its freeholders qualified to vote in the borough, not in any county division.
* An informal, shortened form of the political division type borough, used both in the names of some towns, but also as official county level subdivisions in the Northeastern United States, especially Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
After were introduced as an administrative division in Stockholm in 1996, Maria-Gamla Stan grew when it merged with the former borough of Hornstull in 1999, so that it comprised the whole western half of Södermalm and the island districts of Gamla Stan, Långholmen, Reimersholme and Riddarholmen.
Under the current territorial division of the Mexican Federal District, it is a part of the borough ( delegación ) of Coyoacán.
First, the administrative division directly below the state level is called a borough instead of a county, but is otherwise equivalent.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the borough's representation had been reduced to one seat at the 1885 general election, and for the 1918 general election the borough was abolished and replaced with a county division which carried the same name but covered a wider geographical area.
Taunton county constituency ( 1918 – 2010 ): The county constituency created in 1918 effectively combined the borough with the southern part of the existing West Somerset or Wellington county division, so that it included the towns of Wellington and Wiveliscombe, many small villages and parts of Exmoor.
The parliamentary borough of Salisbury was abolished for the 1918 general election, and the name transferred to a new county division.
This division took the entirety of the abolished Parliamentary borough of Scarborough, together with the majority of the previous Whitby division and a very small part of Cleveland division: the parishes of Westerdale and Commondale.
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