The full development of the medieval borough followed the establishment in 1421 of a college of priests to take charge of the church.
A medieval borough with a castle (now in ruins) dating from about 1126, the town of Newport enjoyed commercial privileges conferred by various charters, such as that of 1385.
Local tradition asserts that Frome was a medieval borough, and the reeve of Frome is occasionally mentioned in documents after the reign of Edward I, but there is no direct evidence that Frome was a borough and no trace of any charter granted to it.
The medieval English borough was an urban centre identified by a charter granting privileges, autonomy, and (later) incorporation.
In 1986, the governing bodies of British urban areas – the metropolitan county councils of Greater Manchester, the West Midlands, South and West Yorkshire, Tyneside, Greater London and Merseyside, created so that cities could be run like the massive, complex entities they are rather than as quasi-medieval independent boroughs – were suddenly abolished.
It became a municipality by the amalgamation of three separate towns: Bremerhaven, founded (1827) as a port for Bremen by its burgomaster, Johann Smidt, on territory ceded by Hanover; Geestemünde, founded by Hanover in competition in 1845; and Lehe, a borough dating from medieval times that attained town status in 1920.
HIT LIST By Lawrence Block William Morrow ($25, hardcover) Keller knew Manhattan reasonably well, but his mental map of the outer boroughs was like a medieval mariner's map of the world.
Almost simultaneously, Eric Pickles has denounced the directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets as a "medieval monarch" and taken control of the borough.
The borough derives its name from the local medieval Hadleigh Castle, which the artist John Constable made the subject of a powerful landscape.
During the medieval period Carmarthen became one of the most important boroughs in Wales, receiving many charters, notably from Henry III in 1227, and Edward III in 1353 made the town the sole wool staple (market) for Wales.
Tamworth town, a borough since Anglo-Saxon times, grew around its medieval market and was incorporated in 1560.
