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    Burgage is a medieval land term used in Great Britain and Ireland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town ("borough" or "burgh") rental...
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    rotten boroughs. Burgage boroughs In these 29 boroughs, the right to vote was attached to ownership of certain properties known as burgages – whoever owned...
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    properties of varying scale, colour and detail which were built on long, narrow burgage plots probably of medieval origin. The 18th century façade of the Wynnstay...
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  • private citizens or groups. Socage, a feudal tax system based on land rent. Burgage, a feudal tax system based on land rent. Some principalities taxed windows...
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    While not at school or college, Byron lived at his mother's residence, Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. While there, he cultivated friendships...
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    property and transmit it at death. This was called burgage tenure. Each development plot or "burgage" consisted of around 0.25 acres (0.10 hectares). A...
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    (Irish: Buiríos Mór Osraí, meaning 'the great borough of Ossory', or the 'Burgage of Osraige') is a village in west County Laois, Ireland, close to the Tipperary...
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    surrounding prebendary properties Burgage was north of the cathedral, around Burgage Green, traditionally hosting burgage properties Hightown was to the...
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    Ferrers, on 14 January 1253, and a market was held until the 18th century. Burgage plots were laid out on Churchgate and Deansgate in the centre of the medieval...
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  • of new houses set on equal-sized plots of land - burgage plots. At the opposite end of the burgage plot there is often a back lane which gives the original...
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