(in Scotland) a burgh holding a charter from the Crown.
〈史〉（苏格兰）（经英王特许成立的）敕准自治市
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Read any history of Berwick, and you find that it was once Scotland's richest and most powerful town, a royal burgh.
The ancestral home town of the dukes of Argyll, the royal burgh has long been a difficult destination for those not of the Campbell persuasion.
The royal burgh of North Berwick has been served by a rail link to Edinburgh since 1850, which helped the town prosper.
The old royal burgh has a modern face as well, with an internationally respected university on its fringes, while breathtakingly beautiful lochs and green hills provide a stunning backdrop.
Winchester and Battle seem to have had substantial French elements in their populations; Flemish immigrants can be traced in Berwick and other royal burghs of twelfth-century Scotland.
Made a royal burgh in 1264, it used to be a minor player in the old Hanseatic League, shipping in flax and hemp from St Petersburg and Riga for its textile mills, and trading with everybody from Sweden down to Portugal.
Hampden Park, the national football stadium, lies immediately to the west and the old royal burgh of Rutherglen to the east.
Between these two great historical towns lies a string of royal burghs, each with a distinctive charm, among the most celebrated of which is Falkland.