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{{Short description|Medieval land term; a town rental property}}
[[File:Tron Kirk surroundings.JPG|thumb|The closes (passageways) off [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Royal Mile]] follow the lines of the old burgage plots]]
'''Burgage''' is a [[medieval land terms|medieval land term]] used in [[Great Britain]] and [[Ireland]], well established by the 13th century.
A burgage was a town ("[[borough]]" or "[[burgh]]") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord. The property ("burgage tenement") usually, and distinctly, consisted of a house on a long and narrow plot of land (
As populations grew
Burgage tenures were usually money
[[File:Rothe House model.png|thumb|Model of [[Rothe House]] and modern surroundings illustrating its burgage plot, with buildings in grey and garden in green]]
Burgage grants were also common in Ireland; for example, when the town of [[Wexford]] received its royal charter in 1418, English settlers were encouraged into the town and were given burgage plots at a rent of one [[shilling]] per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://irishwalledtownsnetwork.ie/page/wexford/wexford-info |title=Wexford Info - Irish Walled Towns Network |website=irishwalledtownsnetwork.ie |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208110510/http://irishwalledtownsnetwork.ie/page/wexford/wexford-info |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The term was translated into [[Irish language|Irish]] as {{lang|ga|buiríos}}, and the element "[[Borris (disambiguation)|Borris]]"<!--intentional link to DAB page--> survives in many Irish place names. [[Rothe House]] in [[Kilkenny]] is an exceptionally well-preserved medieval burgage.<ref name=rothehouse>{{cite web|title=Welcome To Rothe House Kilkenny |url= http://www.rothehouse.com/|work=rothehouse.com|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303130559/http://rothehouse.com/ | archive-date= 3 March 2016 | quote = Rothe House & Garden, a historic house in Kilkenny [...] is the only example of an early 17th century merchant’s townhouse in Ireland.}}</ref>
==See also==
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*[[Land tenure]]
*[[Grid plan]]
*[[Feudalism]]
==References==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050404115544/http://the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/towns/glossary.html Medieval English Towns - Glossary]
*The Local Historian's Encyclopedia by John Richardson - {{ISBN|0-9503656-7-X}}
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* T.R. Slater, The Analysis of Burgage Patterns in Medieval Towns, Area, Vol. 13, no. 3, 1981
[[Category:History of agriculture in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Feudalism in the British Isles]]
[[Category:Real estate in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Local government in England]]
[[Category:Land tenure]]
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