Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn.

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 town largely consists of the Milnshaw, Peel, Central, Barnfield and Spring Hill wards, although some parts of those wards are in other towns in the borough.

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

In Australia, borough can designate a town and its surrounding area, such as the Borough of Queenscliffe.

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 town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.

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.

Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.

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

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 ".

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield.

In 2012, the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place in the town of Waltham Cross, within the borough of Broxbourne.

Upon the 2001 Berlin administrative reform, Rathaus Schöneberg became the town hall for the newly constituted borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.

In the United States and Canada, suburb can refer either to an outlying residential area of a city or town or to a separate municipality, borough, or unincorporated area outside a town or city.

The borough of Wernigerode is divided into the town itself, including the villages of Hasserode and Nöschenrode incorporated before 1994 and five villages with their own parish councils that were integrated in 1994: Benzingerode, Minsleben, Reddeber, Schierke and Silstedt.

In Boston, Lincolnshire Banks was Recorder for the town and a portrait painted in 1814 by Thomas Phillips RA was commissioned by the Corporation of Boston, as a tribute to one whose ' judicious and active exertions improved and enriched this borough and neighbourhood '.

Staines-upon-Thames, often referred to by its former name Staines (), is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England ( historically in Middlesex ).

The granting of the charter included the charge that the town " at all perpetual future times ... be and remain a town and borough of Peace and Quiet, to the example and terror of the wicked and reward of the good ".

In 1282 the English-style county of Caernarfonshire was established, composed of Caernarfon ( the new county town ) and its hinterland ; and in 1284 Caernarfon was made a borough and market town, and the seat of Edward I's government in North Wales.

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.

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.

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.

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

The borough council is elected by the borough assembly ( Bezirksverordnetenversammlung ).

" 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.

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.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

The borough of Bayreuth is divided into 39 districts:

This is distinct from the two-tier system of local government which still exists in most of England, where local government functions are divided between county councils ( the upper tier ) and district or borough councils.

The borough is divided into a number of localities including the ancient political district of Westminster around the Palace of Westminster ; the shopping areas around Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Bond Street ; and the night time entertainment district of Soho.

The southwest of the island is separated by the Lachine Canal between Lachine and Montreal's Old Port ; this portion of the island is partially divided further by the Canal de l ' Aqueduc, running roughly parallel to the Lachine Canal, beginning in the borough of LaSalle and continuing between the boroughs of Le Sud-Ouest and Verdun.

The borough is divided between two constituencies represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom:

At the previous General Election in 2005, the borough was divided differently:

The borough is divided into 21 wards, each with 3 councillors.

The borough is divided into the following districts:

Insofar as central government is concerned, the borough is divided among the constituencies of Old Bexley and Sidcup ; Erith and Thamesmead ( shared with the Royal Borough of Greenwich ); and Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Previously the borough was divided into 26 wards and 6 areas, used for elections from 1978 to 1998.

Of these areas, the borough is further divided into these wards: Barnhill Ward, Botwell Ward, Brunel Ward, Cavendish Ward, Charville Ward, Eastcote and East Ruislip Ward, Harefield Ward, Heathrow Villages Ward, Hillingdon East Ward, Ickenham Ward, Manor Ward, Northwood Hills Ward, Northwood Ward, Pinkwell Ward, South Ruislip Ward, Townfield Ward, Uxbridge North Ward, Uxbridge South Ward, West Drayton Ward, West Ruislip Ward, Yeading Ward, Yiewsley Ward: this link has pointers to maps.

The borough is divided into 16 electoral wards, all bar two electing three councillors apiece.

The borough can further be divided into sections, including Belin Village, Spike Island, The Millwoods, Starks, Lower Moosic, Doug Hill, Glenmaura, Moosic Heights, and Greenwood.

When first created, the borough was divided into two wards, east and west, the dividing line being Academy Street.

The body eventually came to be divided into two branches: bishops, abbots, earls and barons formed the House of Lords, while the shire and borough representatives formed the House of Commons.

The borough is divided into four electoral areas: Castlereagh Central, South, East and West.

The borough is divided between the East Belfast constituency ( the wards of Ballyhanwood, Carrowreagh, Cregagh, Downshire, Dundonald, Enler, Gilnahirk, Graham ’ s Bridge, Lisnasharragh, Lower Braniel, Tullycarnet and Upper Braniel ), the South Belfast constituency ( Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Galwally, Hillfoot, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, Newtownbreda and Wynchurch wards ) and the Strangford constituency ( Moneyreagh ward ) for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

In 1894 the county was divided into county districts, with the rural districts being Ely Rural District, Thorney Rural District, Whittlesey Rural District, Wisbech Rural District, North Witchford Rural District, and the urban districts were Ely, March, Whittlesey and Wisbech ( the only municipal borough ).

The new borough was divided into 6 neighborhoods ( Tiurleiken, Ravnkollen, Røverkollen, Orremyr, Emanuelfjell and the largest: Svarttjern ( often referred to as Øvre og Nedre Svarttjern ; upper and lower Svarttjern ).

Bottrop is divided into 3 boroughs, they are: Bottrop-Mitte ( Bottrop-Center ), Bottrop-Süd ( Bottrop South ) and Bottrop-Kirchhellen, each one having a borough representation and a borough ruler.

The borough is divided into four areas: Portadown, Central, Loughside, and Lurgan.