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.

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.

77 % of the borough ’ s population, aged between 16 and 74 years are economically active with the service sector employing the largest proportion, 46. 4 % of this group.

Bridgend ( like Wales in general ) suffers from a lack of high-wage service jobs, however the retail sector in particular provides a large proportion of employment in the town and borough.

Census data indicates that the proportion of households in rented tenure was higher than the average for the borough.

A large proportion ( 15 %) of the borough was parkland, population density was only 30 people per acre and Hornsey had the lowest death rate of any large town in the London area.

Fortis Green ward has a population of about 11, 000 and is generally a middle-class area, with a higher proportion of skilled and highly qualified employees than the borough average ( 40. 7 % as compared with 26. 3 % are in social grade AB ).

The Burghal Hidage ( early 10th century ) is a list of boroughs giving the hide assessments of neighbouring districts which were liable to contribute to the defence of the borough, each contributing to the maintenance and manning of the fortifications in proportion to the number of hides for which they answered.

The southern part, in the borough of Westminster, was made up of multi tenanted properties and over the past 20 years a large proportion of these multi-occupancy properties have been converted back to single family use and luxury flats.

Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government.

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

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 ).

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.

That same month, the towns of Hamilton West and Hamilton East merged under a single borough council.

It is uniquely the only London borough to replicate exactly the unchanged boundaries of a single former district.

The borough is mostly vacation and year-round homes with a single night club, a miniature golf course and several marinas.

Based on an ordinance passed in 1928, commercial activity in the borough is limited to a single three-story building constructed to look like a house and two small workshops on a dead end.

Out of the 2, 549 houses in the borough, 84. 7 % of them were single units ( detached ) and had a median of 7. 7 rooms.

The borough is made up of small to medium-sized single family homes.

The borough also features a variety of single family homes, as well as twins, and rowhomes.

The Reform Act of 1885 abolished the borough of Ripon, but the county constituency in which the town was placed as a result was named Ripon, and this continued as a single member constituency, albeit with some boundary changes, until it was abolished before the 1983 general election.

Pocket boroughs were boroughs that could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned most of the land in the borough.

The borough ceased to exist in 1974 after the incorporation of the larger Borough of Medina, which was itself superseded in 1995 by a single unitary authority covering the whole of the Isle of Wight.

For example, the administrative counties of East Suffolk and West Suffolk, along with the county borough of Ipswich, were considered to make up a single ceremonial county of Suffolk, and the administrative county of the Isle of Wight was part of the ceremonial county of Hampshire.

Carmarthen lays claim to being the oldest town in Wales but the two settlements of Old and New Carmarthen were only united into a single borough in 1546.

This is where most of the population leaves and where the single most important economic activity of the borough takes place: the cultivation of nopal ( cactus ).

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the Island's county council and two district councils.

Following a review by the Local Government Commission for England, the borough was abolished on 1 April 1995, when a single Isle of Wight Council replaced the island's county council and two district councils.

The station should not be confused with Epsom Downs station which is the terminus of a single branch line from Sutton at the edge of the boundary of the borough Epsom and Ewell with Reigate and Banstead.

It was a merger of Macclesfield municipal borough, Alderley Edge, Bollington, Knutsford and Wilmslow urban districts, along with the single parish Disley Rural District, Macclesfield Rural District and part of Bucklow Rural District.

Before the advent of police authorities, the regulatory bodies for police forces confined to a single borough were these watch committees, whilst those for counties from 1889 had been " standing joint committees " ( after 1889 some control passed to the elected county council ; the joint committee also had magistrates ).

If another type of local authority such as a district authority covers a single town ( such as Corby or Cheltenham ) then the council is often a ' borough council ': borough status is however conferred at the discretion of the Crown.