Editing Large burgh

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| category=      [[Burgh]]
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| start_date=    1930
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| legislation_begin=      [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929]]
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| legislation_end=        [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]]
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| end_date=               1975
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'''Large burgh''' was a type of municipal structure in Scotland, which existed from 1930 to 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Team|first=National Records of Scotland Web|date=2013-05-31|title=National Records of Scotland|url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/research-guides/research-guides-a-z/burgh-records|access-date=2022-02-01|website=National Records of Scotland|language=English}}</ref>

==History==
When county councils had been established in 1890 under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889]], there were 26 [[burgh]]s which were excluded from county council control. Many other burghs were within the area controlled by county councils, having various functions as lower-tier authorities. The [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929]] made extensive reforms to the structure of local government, including bringing all but four burghs under the control of a county council; the exceptions were [[Aberdeen]], [[Dundee]], [[Edinburgh]], and [[Glasgow]], which were all classed as [[county of city|counties of cities]].

The burghs under county council control after 1930 were then classed as either [[small burgh]]s or large burghs. Whilst the county councils provided some services in large burghs (notably education), the large burghs retained extensive responsibilities. The list of large burghs substantially overlapped with the list of burghs which had been outside county council control prior to 1930.

The large burghs were:
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*[[Airdrie, North Lanarkshire|Airdrie]]
*[[Arbroath]]
*[[Ayr]]
*[[Clydebank]]
*[[Coatbridge]]
*[[Dumbarton]]
*[[Dumfries]]
*[[Dunfermline]]
*[[East Kilbride]] (made a large burgh in 1967)<ref>{{cite web |title=East Kilbride Burgh |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10359296 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[Falkirk]]
*[[Greenock]]
*[[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire|Hamilton]]
*[[Inverness]]
*[[Kilmarnock]]
*[[Kirkcaldy]]
*[[Motherwell, Scotland|Motherwell]] and [[Wishaw]]
*[[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]]
*[[Perth, Scotland|Perth]]
*[[Port Glasgow]]
*[[Rutherglen]]
*[[Stirling]]
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Of the large burghs created in 1930, only four had not been previously independent from a county council, being Clydebank, Coatbridge, Falkirk, and Rutherglen. Conversely, there were six burghs which had previously been independent but were not made large burghs in 1930, being [[Brechin]], [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]], [[Forfar]], [[Galashiels]], [[Hawick]], and [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Guide to local government in parishes, counties and burghs |date=1892 |publisher=Royal College of Physicians |location=Edinburgh |pages=xxiii–xxx |url=https://archive.org/details/b21905678/page/n29/mode/2up |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The County Council Magazine |date=1890 |publisher=F. Warne and Company |location=London |page=284 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nfAZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284 |access-date=31 December 2021 |chapter=Preparing for the elections in Scotland}}</ref>

All burghs in [[Scotland]] were abolished in 1975 and replaced with the uniform system of [[Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996|districts and regions]], which is itself now defunct.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The land of Scotland and the common good: report|url=http://www.gov.scot/publications/land-reform-review-group-final-report-land-scotland-common-good/pages/36/|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.gov.scot|language=en}}</ref> (See [[Subdivisions of Scotland]] for the modern units of [[local government]] in the country.)

==See also==
*[[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929]]
*[[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/status_page.jsp?unit_status=LBu Status detail for Large Burgh]

[[Category:Large burghs| ]]
[[Category:Defunct types of subdivision in the United Kingdom]]


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