royal burgh

noun

(in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign

Falkland (fa¨kland), an ancient royal burgh of Scotland, county of Fife, 21 miles north of Edinburgh.

She will be found so described in the arms of the Royal Burgh of Banff.

The town, which was created a royal burgh by David I., was burnt down about the middle of the 13th century.

It is a place of some antiquity, having been made a royal burgh in the reign of William the Lion (d. 1214).

Pittenweem, a royal burgh and sea-port on the east-coast of Fife.

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