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• Until 1974 Greenock was a parliamentary burgh in its own right.
• Renfrew was a parliamentary burgh as a component of East Renfrewshire constituency.
• Kirkwall was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Orkney and Shetland.
• Port Glasgow became a parliamentary burgh in 1832, and another component of Kilmarnock Burghs.
• The Royal Burghs Act was also extended to the 12 parliamentary burghs which had recently been enfranchised.
• Three other considerable towns, Paisley, Greenock and Port Glasgow, were designated as parliamentary burghs.
• Inverness-shire covered, at least nominally, the county of Inverness minus the Inverness parliamentary burgh.
• Until Scottish county boundaries, and any parliamentary burgh within the county would have been outside the constituency.
• The Inverness constituency was created to cover the rest of the county of Inverness, including the parliamentary burgh.
• As defined in 1918 the constituency covered the parliamentary burghs of Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Inverkeithing, and Lochgelly.
• Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency, covering the parliamentary burghs of Inverness, Fortrose, Forres and Nairn.
• Two of these, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs, had included areas ( parliamentary burghs ) outside the two counties.
• In 1708 parliamentary burghs were allocated to districts of burghs, each district serving as a constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain.
• It also allowed the parliamentary burghs to adopt the burgh police act, and to levy for moneys to carry out municipal government.
• The idea of parliamentary burghs continues to this day, in the form of burgh constituencies, which are distinct from county constituencies.
• The constituency elected one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to represent the parliamentary burghs of Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Inverbervie.
• When the district of burghs constituency was abolished in 1832 the Glasgow parliamentary burgh was merged into the then new two-member Kilmarnock Burghs constituency.
• The constituency was created to cover the county of Dumbarton ( later " Dunbarton " ) minus any parliamentary burgh or part thereof within the county.
• Until 1832, when Peterhead was added, the constituency comprised the parliamentary burghs of Kintore, lying in Elginshire ( later known as Morayshire ), Banffshire and Aberdeenshire.
• County councils were created in Scotland in 1890, and so the constituency area became also the county council area of Ross and Cromarty, minus the Fortrose, Dingwall and Cromarty parliamentary burghs.