Evidence shows them to have existed since the 15th century, ( Highland pipes can only be documented from the 16th Century ,) when they were used for dancing and entertainment in Court and castle, later they became popular amongst Burgh Pipers, and Town Minstrels until the early 19th Century, when the demise of the Town Pipers lead to their disappearing from the record.

Cultural attractions in the area include the Freud Museum, Keats House, Kenwood House, Fenton House, The Isokon building, Burgh House, and the Camden Arts Centre.

* Burgh House & Hampstead Museum – New End Square, Hampstead, London, NW3 1LT

The House of Burke take the original form of their surname, de Burgh, from the area.

Regular team was Connelly Sturgeon Curran, Dick Chisholm Caughey, Gilshan Burke McDonald Reid and Boylan. and Nicky House, Johnstone Burgh are a Scottish football club based in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and play in Central Division Two of the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region.

Formerly a Burgh, local government of the town is now the responsibility of East Dunbartonshire Council, which until 2011 had some departmental offices at Boclair House.

No Burgh sat in the House of Lords before 1529 ; the grandfather of that Lord Burgh had been summoned to the House in 1487, but did not sit ; whether this was sufficient to create a barony by writ is debatable.

His son, Sir Edward Burgh was never summoned to the House of Lords, although he was elected to the House of Commons in his father's lifetime.

W Mackay Lennox bought the house in 1930 and in 1937, on his retiral as Town Clerk, he presented the House and its policies to Kilsyth Burgh, in memory of his mother.

* House of Burke, are a Hiberno-Norman noble house, the descendants of William de Burgh ( c. 1160 ?- 1204 )

As a result of the Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland, Scotland is covered by 59 constituencies of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament-19 Burgh constituencies and 40 County constituencies.

Ulick was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Burgh in 1628, and succeeded his father as 5th earl in 1635.

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

It was to be a short stay: Danish attacks and huge floods in 1011 and 1014 motivated the townspeople to relocate to the New Burgh.

The colonists tried again in 1605 with the same result, but a third attempt in 1607 was more successful and in due course Stornoway became a Burgh of Barony.

The first was his marriage alliance from 1302 with the de Burgh family of the Earldom of Ulster in Ireland ; second, Bruce himself on his mother's side of Carrick, was descended from Gaelic royalty in Scotland as well as Ireland.

In 1799 he was appointed Sheriff-Depute of the County of Selkirk, based in the Royal Burgh of Selkirk.

* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh ( d. 1327 ), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.

Henry yielded, and the favourites were dismissed, Hubert de Burgh ( whom they had imprisoned ) was released and reconciled to the king and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince Llywelyn the Great.

Sir Edward Borough was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron's eldest son, Sir Thomas Borough, who would become the 1st Baron Burgh in December 1529 after his father was declared insane.

From then until his death Llywelyn was the dominant force in Wales, though there were further outbreaks of hostilities with marcher lords, particularly the Marshall family and Hubert de Burgh, and sometimes with the king.

In 1228 Llywelyn was engaged in a campaign against Hubert de Burgh, who was Justiciar of England and Ireland and one of the most powerful men in the kingdom.

Llywelyn was becoming concerned about the growing power of Hubert de Burgh.

The eagle was taken from the arms of the Royal Burgh of Perth.

* Royal Burgh of Perth ( which was styled a city )

For example " Edina Burgh " or " Edinburgh " ( called a city today ) was built around a fort and eventually came to have a defensive wall.

* Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert I of Scotland, was buried here in 1327

Royal Burgh status was soon given to the town by King William The Lion in the early 12th century.

Royal Burgh status was soon awarded to the town from King William the Lion in the early 12th century.

His head was displayed on the Burgh Gate at Canterbury.

Burgh Island is closely linked to Agatha Christie, as it served as the inspirational setting for both And Then There Were None as well as the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun. The hotel and its eloquent Art Deco styling was also a bolt hole in the 1930s for the likes of London's rich and famous, including Noël Coward.

He was preparing to besiege Louis in London when the war was terminated by the naval victory of Hubert de Burgh in the straits of Dover.

The Mearns Street Public School built for the Greenock Burgh School Board.

Five locks were built, to bypass mills, at Coltishall, Oxnead Lamas, Oxnead, Burgh and Aylsham.

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.

Since their foundation, " The Burgh ," have been based at James Y. Keanie Park ( named after the builder who donated the land The club was built upon ), but have much-delayed plans afoot to relocate within the next couple of years to a new ground at the more central Thomas Shanks Memorial Park less than one mile away, built in conjunction with the local council: the perpetually poor drainage at Keanie Park resulting in the regular postponement of home fixtures during the winter months has been a severe financial drain on the side.

Unlike most new towns which were either completely newly built or based around small villages, Irvine was already a sizeable town which had been a Royal Burgh since 1372.

Pediment above entrance showing name of Mearns Street Public School, built for Greenock Burgh School Board.

The hall was built by Sir Thomas Burgh in 1460.

It is a historic town, with Ballymote Castle, built by Richard de Burgh, dating from 1300.

) was built in 1724 to a design by Thomas Burgh for Arthur Price, when he was created Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath.

) was built 1732 by architect Thomas Burgh who also built the Royal Barracks and famous library building at Trinity College both in Dublin.

Hadleigh Castle was first built by Hubert de Burgh, the 1st Earl of Kent, who was a key supporter of King John.

It probably resembled White Castle, remodelled by de Burgh in the same period, or Bolingbroke and Beeston Castles, both built in the 1220s.

There were scattered settlements in the area from at least the 13thC ( when the nearby Kenmure Castle was first built ), but the village was formally founded in the 17th century by the Viscount of Kenmure and granted Royal Burgh status in 1630-this was to enable it to serve as a market town.

In 1597, field commander Lord Burgh on behalf of the Dublin government had built a new fort on the river Blackwater five miles northwest of the government's garrisoned town Armagh.

In Norfolk the ruins of the forts built at Burgh Castle ( Roman Gariannonum ), guarding the estuary across from the island of Flegg, still exist, but there is now little remaining of the forts at Brancaster ( Branodunum ) built on the north coast, and at Caister-on-Sea, on the east coast and near Burgh Castle.

Among other favours conferred upon him by Charles I was the charter, dated 15 January 1629, of a Royal Burgh of New Galloway, a new town which was built within the limits of his estate at Kenmure Castle.

In 1705 the owner, John Walkinshaw, began to feu the lands of Blackfaulds ( part of the Barrowfield estate ) on which the old village of Calton was built, and in 1817 a charter was granted, erecting Calton into a Burgh.