Burghs of Scotland

The following list includes all effective burghs in Scotland from the coming into force of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, in 1893. "Ineffective" burghs, which had not used legislation to adopt a "police system", take on local government duties and reform their town councils, were abolished on this date.

Burgh (pronounced burruh ) is the Scots term for a town or a municipality. It corresponds to the Scandinavian Borg and the English Borough.

Burghs are listed below under the name of the county to which they belonged. The county boundaries used are those effective for local government purposes from circa 1890 until 1975. During this period four burghs were also counties, or counties of cities

These four burghs were redesignated as Counties of Cities in 1930

Note a: ^ Royal Burgh of Aberdeen absorbed Aberdeenshire burghs of Old Aberdeen burgh (burgh of barony 1489, police burgh 1860), Woodside (police burgh 1860) in 1891.

Note b: ^ Royal Burgh of Glasgow absorbed the following Renfrewshire burghs in the years shown:

Note: The royal burgh of Aberdeen was part of this county until 1900.

Note: The royal burgh of Dundee was part of this county until 1894.

‡ Absorbed by Dundee royal burgh 1913

See Midlothian

See Morayshire

† Burghs merged 1929

‡ Dysart absorbed by Kircaldy royal burgh 1930

See Angus

See East Lothian

† Maxwelltown burgh was absorbed by Dumfries royal burgh 1931.

Note: The royal burgh of Glasgow was part of the county until 1893.

† Burghs merged 1920

See West Lothian

Note: The royal burgh of Edinburgh and its liberties formed a separate county of itself from the thirteenth century.

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