The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

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.

Each borough is governed by a borough council ( Bezirksamt ) consisting of five councilors ( Bezirksstadträte ) and a borough mayor ( Bezirksbürgermeister ).

In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.

The council or trustees may apply for an Order in Council or Royal Licence to use the former borough coat of arms.

Under the legislation that created the 26 districts of Northern Ireland, a district council whose area included an existing municipal borough could resolve to adopt the charter of the old municipality and thus continue to enjoy borough status.

It remained a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged into the South Hams district, and became a successor parish of Dartmouth with a town council.

Anomalously, the city of Kilkenny is the only city in the Republic not to have a " city council "; it is still a borough but not a county borough and is administered by its eponymous county council.

* September 1 – Poplar Strike in London: Nine members of the Poplar borough council are arrested.

The boroughs are governed by a president and a borough council, elected contextually to the city mayor.

Shared services are borough council services shared between two or more boroughs.

Generally they are the local borough or district council or a unitary authority.

* Bedford ( borough ), the local council for Bedford and surrounding villages in north Bedfordshire

GLC councillors elected for areas within the former County of London became ex officio members of the new Inner London Education Authority, which took over the LCC responsibility for education ; in Outer London, which was the rest of Greater London, the various London boroughs each became a local education authority, akin to a county council or county borough in the rest of England.

The house and its gardens were bought by the borough council and opened to the public in 1945.

In the 1990s the Hove borough council used the slogan " Hove, Actually " to promote the town for tourism.

The borough council had made several applications for city status since 1889, and took the opportunity of the visit to renew its request.

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.

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.

" 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.

A borough is an administrative division in various countries.

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.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

He first entered parliament in 1819 as Whig member for Peterborough, representing that constituency with a short break ( 1822 – 1823 ) till 1830, when he was elected for the borough of Malton.

She attained fame as the first African-American woman appointed as a United States Federal judge, the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate and the first woman to serve as Manhattan borough president.

In Wales each county elected one member of Parliament, while in England each county elected two members until 1826, when Yorkshire's representation was increased to four, following the disenfranchisement of the Cornish borough of Grampound.

The greater proportion of boroughs in England elected two members of Parliament ; five boroughs however elected only one member, and the City of London and the joint borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis each elected four members.

Each of the city's five counties ( coterminous with each borough ) has its own criminal court system and District Attorney, the chief public prosecutor who is directly elected by popular vote.

Cecil, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in Parliament in 1543 ; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

The area of the sanitary authority was granted a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

It is run by an elected borough council and an elected mayor. The current Mayor of Akron is John McBeth.

Borough Council serves as the legislative body elected by citizens of the borough.

John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain's first organised socialist political party, in the borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council.

The borough elected the first black mayor in 1913 when John Archer took office, and in 1922 elected the Bombay-born Communist Party member Shapurji Saklatvala as MP for Battersea ; one of only two communist members or Parliament.

The borough is within the City and East London Assembly constituency, returning John Biggs AM, as the directly elected Assembly Member.