(Scotland) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
(Scotland) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
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(Scotland, historical) A type of Scottish burgh founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter; these were legally abolished in 1975.
(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
A building that houses the local government offices of a town.
Burrowstown is an obsolete Scottish legal and administrative term for a town that holds burgh status — a formally chartered town with specific rights and privileges under Scots law. The term appears in historical Scottish legal and civic documents. Entirely archaic, it survives only in historical texts and burgh history scholarship. Of interest to researchers of Scottish urban history and Scots legal history, where the technical distinction between a burgh and an ordinary settlement had significant civic and economic consequences.