burgh means A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
name
- A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
noun
- a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
- a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).“1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html
With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient”