The borough of Hyndburn as a whole has a population of 81, 496.

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.

The Encyclopedia of New York City, ( Yale University Press and The New-York Historical Society, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-300-05536-6 ), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.

The concept of the borough has been used repeatedly ( and often differently ) throughout the English-speaking world.

In Mexico as translations from English to Spanish applied to Mexico City, the word borough has resulted in a delegación ( delegation ), referring to the 16 administrative areas within the Mexican Federal District.

In some cases, the ' berg ' element in place names has converged towards burg / borough ; for instance Farnborough, from fernaberga ( fern-hill ).

It has set out to become " a modern European town " and seeks to attract commercial business in the many industrial sites round the borough.

Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City ( Queens and Brooklyn ),< ref > The New York City borough of Queens has the same boundaries as the County of Queens.

The borough of Brooklyn has the same boundaries as Kings County.

In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.

Evidence of a written account in Occitan from Pamplona revolving around the burning of borough San Nicolas has reached up to our days ( 1258 ), while the History of the War of Navarre by Guilhem Anelier ( 1276 ) albeit written in Pamplona shows a linguistic variant from Toulouse.

* Jens Lekman has a song titled " Tram # 7 to Heaven ", a reference to line 7 of the Gothenburg tram which passes through his native borough of Kortedala.

It has been suggested that Pitt was in fact a far more orthodox Whig than has been historically portrayed demonstrated by his sitting for rotten borough seats controlled by arisocratic magnates, and his lifelong concern for protecting the balance of power on the European continent-which marked him out from many other Patriots.

Since 1990 the Borough President has acted as an advocate for the borough at the mayoral agencies, the City Council, the New York state government, and corporations.

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.

Jobs in the borough have traditionally been concentrated in manufacturing, but since 1975, Brooklyn has shifted from a manufacturing-based to a service-based economy.

Brooklyn has been New York City's most populous borough since the mid-1920s.

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.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Southwark, yet the name has been used for various areas of civil administration, including the ancient Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the current London Borough of Southwark.

The ancient borough of Southwark was also known simply as The Borough — or Borough — and this name, in distinction from ' The City ', has persisted as an alternative name for the area.

Carlisle has held city status since the Middle Ages and has been a borough constituency or parliamentary borough for centuries at one time returning two MPs.

He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Hradčany was an independent borough until 1784, when the four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were proclaimed a single city.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

As a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.

The largest borough, Westminster, had approximately 12, 000 voters, while the smallest, usually known as " rotten boroughs " had, in most cases, fewer than a hundred each.

The most famous rotten borough was Old Sarum, which had 13 burgage plots that could be used to " manufacture " electors if necessary — usually around half a dozen was thought sufficient.

In total therefore the Act disfranchised 143 borough seats in England ( one of the boroughs to be completely abolished, Higham Ferrers, had only a single representative ).

Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use.

In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 " one man, one vote " decision.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

Hereford had formed a historic borough and was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

The borough originally had several civil parishes or parts of parishes within it but these were all merged into a single civil parish of Carlisle in 1904.

Boston ( a borough by 1279 ), on the river Witham, had over many years become an important port for Lincoln.

The wider borough, including a rural area, had a population of 153, 000.

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

When the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent applied for city status in 1925, it was initially refused as it had only 294, 000 inhabitants.

As the borough was larger than Portsmouth, and had recently absorbed Devonport and East Stonehouse, the King agreed to the request.

In December 1963 it was announced that a charter was to be granted incorporating the new authority as " Westminster ", and that the Queen had accepted the advice of the Home Secretary to raise the London borough to the title and dignity of city.

In 1991, Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County ( coterminous with the borough of Manhattan ), disclosed that his office had found evidence that BCCI secretly owned First American.