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County borough

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municipal boroughnoun(British) A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.
borough councilnoun(UK) A body of people elected to manage the affairs of a local government district with borough status, metropolitan borough or London borough; e.g. Spelthorne Borough Council.
burghnoun(UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
metropolitan boroughnoun(UK) A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.
royal boroughnounA borough, currently only in England, which has been granted a royal charter.
boroughhoodnounThe state of being a borough
districtnounAn administrative division of an area.
boroughnounA town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
boronoun(chiefly soccer and Teesside) The town of Middlesbrough, and more specifically Middlesbrough FC football club.
communitynoun(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
bridgendnounA town and community with a town council in Bridgend borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9080).
burynounA borough; a manor
civil parishnoun(England) An administrative subdivision of a borough or local government district, which is the lowest tier of local government, mainly, but not exclusively, in rural areas.
conwy county boroughnounA county borough of Wales located between Gwynedd and Denbighshire.
close boroughnounSynonym of pocket borough.
guildfordnounA large town, the county town of Surrey, England.
boroughbridgenounA town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate borough (OS grid ref SE3966).
blaenau gwentnounA county borough of South Wales, first formed in 1974 as a local government district.
conwynounA county borough in Wales; in full, Conwy County Borough.
burgh of baronynoun(Scotland, historical) A burgh in Scotland, distinct from royal burghs in being granted to a landowner who, as a tenant-in-chief, held his estates directly from the crown.

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