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A burgh of barony is a type of Scottish town (burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
).

They were distinct from royal burgh
Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished in 1975, the term is still used in many of the former burghs....
s as the title was granted to a tenant-in-chief, a landowner who held his estates directly from the crown. (In distinction, burghs of regality
Burgh of regality

A burgh of regality is a type of Scottish town .They were distinct from royal burghs as they were granted to "lords of regality", leading noblemen, ....
 were granted to "lords of regality", leading noblemen, and had wider civil and criminal law powers). They were created between 1450 and 1846, and conferred upon the landowner varying trading rights (for example the right to hold weekly markets or to trade overseas).






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A burgh of barony is a type of Scottish town (burgh
Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
).

They were distinct from royal burgh
Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished in 1975, the term is still used in many of the former burghs....
s as the title was granted to a tenant-in-chief, a landowner who held his estates directly from the crown. (In distinction, burghs of regality
Burgh of regality

A burgh of regality is a type of Scottish town .They were distinct from royal burghs as they were granted to "lords of regality", leading noblemen, ....
 were granted to "lords of regality", leading noblemen, and had wider civil and criminal law powers). They were created between 1450 and 1846, and conferred upon the landowner varying trading rights (for example the right to hold weekly markets or to trade overseas). In practice very few burghs of barony developed into market towns.

Over 300 burghs of barony and regality were created: the last was Ardrossan
Ardrossan

Ardrossan is a town on the North Ayrshire coast in western Scotland. The name "Ardrossan" describes its physical position ? 'ard' from the Gaelic aird meaning height, 'ros' a promontory and the diminutive suffix 'an' - height of the little promontory....
 in 1846. From 1833 inhabitants of such burghs could form a police burgh
Police burgh

A police burgh was a Scottish Burgh which had adopted a ?police system? for governing the town. They existed from 1833 to 1975....
 governed by elected commissioners. In some cases the existing burgh continued to exist alongside the police burgh. Remaining burghs of barony and regality were abolished in 1893 by the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892. Where a police burgh had been formed it absorbed the burgh of barony, in other cases the burgh was dissolved. From that date there was no practical difference between burghs of barony and other police burghs, though a distinction was still sometimes made. For instance, in 1957 Lord Lyon introduced distinctive "burghal coronets" to be displayed above the arms of burghs matriculated by his office: a "coronet suitable to a burgh of barony" was a red mural crown
Mural crown

The Ancient Rome corona muralis as used in classical antiquity was a golden crown, or a circle of gold intended to resemble a battlement, bestowed upon the soldier who first climbed the wall of a besieged city or fortress to successfully place the flag of the attacking army upon it....
, whereas that for a police burgh was blue in colour.

All burghs were abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government of Scotland in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....
. However, hereditary feudal titles formally attached to the lands have been preserved, and are still recognized by the British crown today.