Kirkcudbright
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Kirkcudbright is a town, parish and a royal burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Aerial view of Kirkcudbright and the River Dee
Kirkcudbright Tolbooth
The Johnston School, Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright Galleries
Royal burgh
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A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs.
Falkland in Fife, created a royal burgh in 1458
Burghs by 1153