RandomMusings wrote:There was indeed a 'competition' , as you put it, to create a new city for the Millennium (or was it the Queen's jubilee?). If my limited memory serves me right, that 'city' created through this monumental occasion was Preston.
sqril wrote:Dunfermline is also a city, and the fact is now proudly plastered on all the signs entering Dline 'welcome to the city and royal burgh of Dunfermline'. The old charter was rediscovered a few years ago.
Delts wrote:Was Dunblane at one time not referred to as a city (Cathedral fun)?
Anon. wrote:Isn't St Andrews a burgh?
Anon. wrote:Isn't St Andrews a burgh?
Delts wrote:Anon. wrote:Isn't St Andrews a burgh?
Burgh is just an extra to it's status if it is. I come from Haddington (the first Royal Burgh) which is still a town according to it's signs. It was however once the third largest city in Scotland.
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