History
The first burgh was Berwick. By 1130, David I had established burghs at Haddington, Stirling, Dunfermline, Aberdeen, Perth and Scone, as well as Edinburgh.
Burghs had rights to representation in the Parliament of Scotland. Under the Acts of Union of 1707 many became parliamentary burghs, represented in the Parliament of Great Britain.
Under the Reform Acts of 1832, 32 years after the merger of the Parliament of Great Britain into the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the boundaries of burghs for parliamentary elections ceased to be necessarily their boundaries for other purposes.
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