former royal burgh

C7240
concept

A former royal burgh is a town in Scotland that historically held a royal charter granting it special trading, legal, and administrative privileges, but which no longer retains that official status.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
former royal burgh canonical 8
former burgh 3
Royal burgh 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: former royal burgh
Generated description
A former royal burgh is a town in Scotland that historically held a royal charter granting it special trading, legal, and administrative privileges, but which no longer retains that official status.

Instances (12)

Instance Via concept surface
Roxburgh —
Dumfries, Scotland —
Lanark —
Rothesay —
Rutherglen —
Dunfermline —
Annan —
Bo’ness former burgh
New Galloway Royal burgh
Elie and Earlsferry —
St Ninians former burgh
Royal Burgh of Canongate former burgh