The Bank of England moved to its current location on Threadneedle Street, and thereafter slowly acquired neighbouring land to create the edifice seen today.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

Compared to neighbouring Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, few records of 9th-and 10th-century events in Scotland survive.

A " democratic myth " emerged in the 19th century to the effect that many a " lad of pairts " had been able to rise up through the system to take high office and that literacy was much more widespread in Scotland than in neighbouring states, particularly England.

Rhys had other reasons for rebellion, for he had returned to Deheubarth from England to find that the neighbouring Norman lords were threatening Cantref Mawr.

The English author Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes ' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

This, in turn, revolutionised the Christian beliefs and practices of many Bostonians and residents of the neighbouring shires of England.

His bouts with madness, which seem to have begun in 1392, led to quarrels among the French royal family, which were exploited by the neighbouring powers of England and Burgundy.

Waltham Forest has the fifth largest Muslim population in England and the third largest in London ( coming after its neighbouring boroughs, Newham and Tower Hamlets ).

By the time Clifford and Connie had moved to Wragby Hall, Clifford's father's estate in Nottinghamshire, the coal industry in England seemed to be in decline, although the coal pit was still a big part in the life of the neighbouring town of Tevershall.

Eventually, he imprisons her in her bedroom, but, whilst on a three month trip to England, she is able to make her escape with the help of a neighbouring aristocrat.

The summit plateau of Scafell Pike, and that of other neighbouring peaks, is covered with shattered rock debris which provides the highest altitude example of a summit boulder field in England.

Map of mainland Scotland, northern England and Ireland and neighbouring islands, including ( part of ) the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.

Former England boss Steve McClaren also regularly visits the town, as his family home is situated in the neighbouring village of Aislaby.

Cheshire cheese is a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties, two in Wales ( Denbighshire and Flintshire ) and two in England ( Shropshire and Staffordshire ).

Bude and neighbouring Stratton now find themselves more distant from the national rail network than any other towns in England and Wales.

* Roger Hunt, former Liverpool and England World Cup Winning footballer was born in the neighbouring village of Culcheth ; his family's business Hunt Brothers Haulage is based in Newton le Willows

The trail eventually reaches Redesdale at Blakehopeburnhaugh and Cottonshopeburnfoot, two neighbouring hamlets which compete for the longest name in England.

Broughton () is a hamlet to the east of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England and together with Bierton and other neighbouring hamlets forms part of the civil parish of Bierton with Broughton.

Sandown is a seaside resort town and civil parish on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England, neighbouring the town of Shanklin to the south.

They were reasonably prosperous, but eventually returned to England in 1826, one factor in their decision being a threatened lawsuit from neighbouring farmers, who claimed that Bentham's irrigation system was diverting the local water supply.

In the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, it is a Church of England poor boys ' school originally taught by six elderly men, ancillary to the Bedale Poor Law, founded in 1608 by John Clapham of London, a Chancery clerk for Queen Elizabeth's William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley-whose son and heir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter held possession of neighbouring Snape, part of the larger Middleham estate which they inherited from Lord Latymer, before the Milbanks moved in from Halnaby.

Long Crendon is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, about west of Haddenham and north-west of Thame in neighbouring Oxfordshire.

With Protestant reinforcements arriving from neighbouring counties, the Queen Regent retreated to Dunbar.

As most public holidays in Germany are religiously based, and since the religious holidays ( Protestant and Catholic ) are not uniform across Germany, shops may be closed due to a public holiday in one state, and open in a neighbouring state.

With the neighbouring building of the district archives, the Protestant Consistory, the Humanistic Grammar School and the Bishop ’ s seat built around the same time, the cathedral square received a character which it has kept to this very day.

In mid-16th century, Gorizia emerged as a centre of Protestant Reformation, which was spreading from the neighbouring north-eastern regions of Carniola and Carinthia.

There were a few themes in Take the High Road, in line with Scottish culture, namely the idea of Elizabeth Cunningham the rich lady laird who owned the village and neighbouring farms, and the theme of Protestant religion which was always present.

In 1481 the Thuringian counts of Hohnstein acquired the estates, they granted town privileges to Schwedt as well as to neighbouring Vierraden and introduced the Protestant Reformation.

Additional Protestant parishes are located in the boroughs of Hugsweier, Kippenheimweiler and Langenwinkel, while Langenwinkel is attached to the parish of Hugsweier and Kippenheimweiler to the parish in neighbouring Kippenheim.

The town was fortified between 1630 and 1640 by Cardinal Richelieu as a Catholic bastion in order to fight against the neighbouring Protestant town of La Rochelle.

Some of the minorities in Vojvodina, like Hungarians ( 14. 28 % of population ), Slovaks ( 2. 79 %) or Croats ( 2. 78 %), are mainly Catholic or Protestant stemming from the Habsburg influence while Albanians and Bosniaks in Kosovo and neighbouring parts of Serbia are mainly Muslim stemming from the Ottoman influence.

Problems arose after the Reformation when the Vögte ( lords protectors ) of the abbey were the Protestant rulers of Brandenburg, who had inherited the neighbouring County of the Mark.

During the 17th century, Lutheran persecution of Orthodox Christianity and an influx of Lutheran Finns from neighbouring province of Savonia converted most of the area into Lutheran faith.

The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens, which began to compete with the thalassocracy of Aegina at the beginning of the sixth century.

However, the city of Aveiro together with neighbouring Ílhavo, make one conurbation which has a population of 119, 258 inhabitants, making it one of the most important by population density in the Centro Region.

Patasse has been found guilty of major crimes in Bangui and CAR has brought a case to the International Criminal Court against him and Jean Pierre Bemba from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo accusing them both of multiple crimes in suppressing one of the mutinies against Patasse.

Chile has an inequality-adjusted human development index of 0. 652, compared to 0. 654, 0. 641 and 0. 519 for neighbouring Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, respectively.

Cairo, as well as neighbouring, has been established as Egypt's main centre for medical treatment, and despite some exceptions, has the most advanced level of medical care in the country.

Equatorial Guinea has cordial relations with neighbouring Cameroon, although there was criticism in Cameroon in 2000 about perceived mistreatment of Cameroonians working in Equatorial Guinea.

Gibraltar has ten fuelling stations, and fuel prices are lower than in the neighbouring country of Spain.

This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

The second most important area of immigration to Italy has always been the neighbouring North Africa ( in particular, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia ), with soaring arrivals as a consequence of the Arab Spring.

The Viking Age settlements Birka on the island of Björkö and Hovgården on the neighbouring island Adelsö have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, as has Drottningholm Palace on the island of Lovön.

From the middle of the 4th century BC, the Kingdom of Macedon became the dominant power in Greece and the neighbouring regions ; since then Macedonia has had a diverse history.

The government has intensified cooperation with neighbouring countries and stepped up border controls.

While neighbouring Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is mostly boreal forest ( taiga ), although about half of the territory is north of the tree line.

The Bushveld area has been demarcated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan Mopane woodlands ecoregion, which extends north across the Cunene River into neighbouring Angola.

In Africa, Namibia has been involved in conflicts in neighbouring Angola as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Under this system, Norwegian is grouped together with the neighbouring languages Danish and Swedish, because the last millennium has seen all three undergo important changes, especially in grammar and lexis, which have set them apart from Faroese and Icelandic.

A planet () is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

The TAF are in a protracted campaign against the PKK ( recognized as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and NATO ) which has involved frequent forays into neighbouring Iraq.

Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, including those of western Europe.

Palaeo-drainage network formed by several palaeochannels has been worked out by different researchers in western Rajasthan and neighbouring states, which is mainly buried under sand cover of the Thar Desert and parallel to the Aravalli Hills 6 – 8.

* The " magical " or " sorcerer " witch: either a professional healer, sorcerer, seer or midwife, or a person who has through magic increased her fortune to the perceived detriment of a neighbouring household ; due to neighbourly or community rivalries and the ambiguity between positive and negative magic, such individuals can become labelled as witches.