Burgh Island is a small tidal island off the coast of South Devon in England near to the small seaside village of Bigbury-on-Sea.

There are several buildings on the island, the largest being the Art Deco Burgh Island Hotel.

Later the name changed to Borough Island, eventually being corrupted to Burgh.

Burgh Island is well-known today as the location of a restored 1920s Art Deco style hotel.

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The mouth of the River Avon, seen from Burgh Island

Victoria, Usher's Island, Usher's, Merchants, Wood, Essex, Wellington, Crampton, Aston, Burgh, George's, City, Sir John Rogerson's, and Great Britain.

The view to the southwest is then over Bigbury Bay past Burgh Island and Hope Cove to the promontory known as Bolt Tail.

Direction sign at Bigbury-on-Sea with Burgh Island in the background

* Burgh Island, Devon, England

* Burgh Island in Devon, England

The Burgh Island Sea Tractor

The hotel at Burgh Island own and operate a sea tractor, to carry hotel guests, and other visitors, the to the island at high tide, when the causway connecting the island to the mainland is covered.

The Burgh Island sea tractor also appears as the method of transport between the mainland and the island in Evil Under the Sun ( 2001 film ) TV series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot.

The second Burgh Island sea tractor features in the 1965 Dave Clark Five film " Catch Us If You Can '( 1965 ).

That " New Burgh " was founded in 1069, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as such.

* June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster is murdered and the Burke Civil War begins in Ireland.

* The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.

Critical events of Henry's reign are well described, including the dismissal of Peter des Roches ( after a politically loaded riddle by Roger Bacon is answered by Henry ), the ejection of Poitevins from England, the conflict with Hubert de Burgh, the marriage of Eleanor with Simon de Montfort, and finally the accession of Henry's son, Edward I after the battle of Evesham.

* The community council for Elgin is called City and Royal Burgh of Elgin Community Council.

Hubert is one of the possible de Burgh's that received the coat of arms ; it is said that Richard I dipped his finger in the blood of a slain Saracen king, put a red cross on the gold shield of de Burgh, and said " for your bravery this will be your crest ".

Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council (, Ulster Scots: Rathgannon an Sooth Owenslann Burgh Cooncil ) is a local council in Northern Ireland.

Burgh Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

Burgh Castle is the site of one of several Roman forts constructed to hold cavalry as a defence against Saxon raids up the rivers of the east and south coasts of southern Britain ( the Saxon Shore ).

The church of Burgh Castle St Peter and St Paul is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

Breydon Water is overlooked at the southern end by the remains of the Roman fort at Burgh Castle.

According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars ’ Hill ; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars ’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh ; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary.

It is a former Royal Burgh.

The Royal Burgh of Cromarty (; Cromba in Gaelic ) is a burgh in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.

Dunbar is a former Royal Burgh and gave its name to an ecclesiastical and civil parish.

The death of Arthur is a vital ingredient in Shakespeare's history play King John, in which Arthur is portrayed as a child whose innocence dissuades Hubert de Burgh from committing the murder demanded by King John.

This is presented as the lengthy narrative of the aged Hubert de Burgh, who is supposed to have saved Arthur's life and accompanied him on crusade to the Holy Land, where he becomes King of Jerusalem and eventually returns to England, defeats King John and kills his son Henry Plantagenet ( the historical Henry III ) in single combat.

These roads linked to the coastal defensive line of Saxon Shore forts e. g. Brancaster ( Branodunum ), Burgh Castle ( Gariannonum ) near Great Yarmouth, Lympne ( Portus Lemanis ) and Pevensey ( Anderitum ).

When Walter de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, became Earl of Ulster in 1243 the de Burgo cross became inseparably linked with the province of Ulster.

The Tolbooth was built between 1625 and 1629 and served not only as the tolbooth, but also the council offices, the Burgh and Sheriff courts, the criminal prison, and the debtors ' prison.

Lanark has served as an important market town since medieval times, and King David I made it a Royal Burgh in 1140, giving it certain mercantile privileges relating to government and taxation.

Inverurie is a Royal Burgh and town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately north west of Aberdeen on the A96 road and is served by Inverurie railway station on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line.

Later he served as a Burgh Councillor and became Convener of the Nine Incorporated Trades.

In 1215 he briefly served in the household of his uncle Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.

These five cantreds were the only lands de Burgh served to the Crown, keeping the remaining 25.

De Burgh served with distinction in France with King Henry III in 1245 and later in Scotland.

He also served as a Burgh Councillor for Inverness, and was Provost of Inverness 1925-1931.