The Borough of East York was the last Toronto municipality to hold this status, relinquishing it upon becoming part of the City of Toronto on January 1, 1998.

* Borough status in the United Kingdom

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

In 1936 Malden and Coombe was granted full Borough status, with its own Mayor, and had the rare distinction of a civic mace bearing the royal insignia of King Edward VIII.

The status of Royal Borough was granted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963, which was converted into the title of Royal Town in 1974.

They are Westminster, which is termed the City of Westminster as it has city status, Kingston upon Thames, Kensington and Chelsea, and ( since 2012 ) Greenwich, which are termed " Royal Borough of ", due to their Royal borough status.

At its creation Westminster was awarded city status, which had been previously held by the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westminster.

The former County Borough of Carlisle had held city status until the Local Government Act 1972 was enacted in 1974.

In 1887, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated, and the Borough of Belfast submitted a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland seeking city status.

In 1979, the Borough of Medway was renamed as Rochester-upon-Medway, and in 1982 further letters patent transferred the city status to the entire borough.

It was designated in 1968, and was the first area to be given the status by the London Borough of Sutton.

Historically a rural Essex parish, it gained Urban District status in 1894, and between 1938 and 1965 formed the core of the Municipal Borough of Chingford, Chingford now forms part of the north-east London Borough of Waltham Forest.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Greenwich became a Royal Borough on 3 February 2012, due in part to its historic links with the Royal Family, and to its UNESCO World Heritage Site status as home of the Prime Meridian.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, on 3 February 2012 Greenwich became the fourth Royal Borough, an honour additional to its historic links with the Royal Family, and its status as home of the Prime Meridian and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ( often abbreviated to RBKC ) is a central London borough of Royal borough status.

Kensington's Royal Borough status was inherited by the new borough.

The old civil parish was formed into an Urban District within Essex in 1894 and it gained the status of Municipal Borough in 1926.

The urban district gained the status of municipal borough on 4 May 1954 and the urban district council became Harrow Borough Council.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, it was announced on 5 January 2010 that on 3 February 2012 the London Borough of Greenwich would become the fourth to have Royal Borough status, the others being the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

* Borough Council, a class of second tier council in the United Kingdom

Adopting the name change, the council resolved to call on residents, businesses and public organisations to use the name Staines-upon-Thames, and to call on the Surrey County Council and Runnymede Borough Council to use Staines-upon-Thames for all official business.

In s. 2 of the Act each council formed for a county is allocated the respective English and Welsh descriptions of " County Council " or " Cyngor Sir ", each council formed for a County Borough is allocated the respective descriptions of " County Borough Council " or " Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol "; in all cases the shorter alternative forms " Council " or " Cyngor " can be used.

The Borough is generally an area of mixed development, with council estates, major office developments, social housing and high value residential gated communities side by side with each other.

On 1 April 1974, the city council was abolished, becoming part of the Borough of Medway, a local government district in the county of Kent.

A municipal council was the name given to a type of local government council administering a Municipal Borough that could contain civil parishes or could be unparished.

Borough Council elects from members a president of council and a vice-president.

Mayor is responsible for law enforcement and holds a non-voting membership in the council, but with tie-breaking and veto powers per the Pennsylvania Borough Code

The city is administered by a Borough Council and a Mayor which is a level below that of city council in the Local government of the state although the Local Government Act 2001 allows for " the continued use of the description city ".

Bellingham is a neighbourhood and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham, and consists mainly of social / council housing built in the 1920s on what was then farm land.

The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced two local authorities: Finsbury Metropolitan Borough Council and Islington Metropolitan Borough Council.

Several acclaimed council housing estates were commissioned by Finsbury Borough Council.

Southwark is the London Borough with the largest amount of social housing that is still under direct council control.

Ickenham had a parish council but came within the Uxbridge Rural District until 1925, when this was absorbed into the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge.

The building ceased to be a town hall in 1905 when the former Rotherhithe Council merged with the old Bermondsey Borough Council and the new council used premises in Spa road.

There are 15 council run libraries in the London Borough of Barnet, mobile library and home library services, and a local studies and archives library.

The London Borough of Hillingdon's Civic Centre was built in Uxbridge High Street in 1973, as part of an effort to unite the services of the council, which had formed in 1965 with the merger of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge, Ruislip-Northwood Urban District, Hayes and Harlington Urban District and Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District.

Walworth is a community council area in the London Borough of Southwark and is made up of three council wards: Newington, East Walworth and Faraday, each of which elects three councillors.

At the time of the strike he was chairman of the Stepney Borough Electricity Committee.

His great grandfather was the first chairman of first Kingstown County Borough Council.

He also attacked MFJ chairman Alex Owolade who was subsequently sacked from his employment with Lambeth London Borough Council.

In total he served fourteen years for Great Yarmouth Borough Council and was chairman of various committees, Deputy Leader for four years and Leader of the council for over two years from 1995 until 1997.

The club's darkest hour came during this period when in 1994 the receivers were called in after former chairman Victor Green lost interest in the club in favour of Stevenage Borough, but the club was saved at the 11th hour by businessman Ivor Arbiter, at the time owner of distribution rights for Fender in the U. K.

Danny Dyer ( born Daniel John Dyer on 24 July 1977 ), is an English actor, media personality, and chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-League football team.

A lifelong player and fan of football, Dyer is a West Ham United fan, in late December 2007, Dyer became the chairman of Kent League's Greenwich Borough in South East London, appointed by fellow actor Tamer Hassan, president of the Kent League football club, stating: " I just love football and the chance of being involved with a club is like a dream come true.

After their first season in the Southern Football League Eastern Division, they finished 9th in the table, the club chairman, Len Smith, announced on 26 May 2001 that the club was to be renamed Eastbourne Borough to reflect the town the team played in.

In 1962 he was created Baron Aldington, of Bispham in the County Borough of Blackpool, and increased his business interests, serving as the chairman of several companies.

Respected financier Hubbell Smith takes over as president of Borough National Bank at the request of First New York Bank chairman Maxwell Emery, in an attempt to have Smith discover the financial status of Borough National.

Alcindor became senior district medical officer of the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington in 1917 and in 1921 chairman of the APU, succeeding John Archer.