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==History==
Burgage was the basis of the right to vote in many boroughs sending [[Member of Parliament|members]] to the [[unreformed House of Commons|House of Commons]] before 1832. In these boroughs the right to vote was attached to the occupation of particular burgage tenements. These burgages could be freely bought and sold, and the owner of the tenement was entitled to [[conveyancing|convey]] the right to vote for the duration of the election to another person, their
In medieval England and Scotland and some parts of the [[Welsh Marches]] '''burgage plots''' or '''burgage tenements''' were [[inclosure|inclosed fields]] extending the confines of a town, established by the lord of the manor, as divisions of the 'open' manorial fields. The [[Burgess (word)|burgesses]] (equivalents of "burghers") to whom these tracts were allotted, as tenants of the enclosed lands, paid a cash rent instead of, as previously, feudal service. In 1207, for instance, Maurice Paynell, the Lord of the Manor of Leeds, granted a charter to
These burgesses had to be freemen: those who were entitled to practise a trade within the town and to participate in electing members of the town's ruling council.
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In the very earliest chartered foundations, predating the [[Norman Conquest]], the burgage plots were simply the ploughland strips of pre-existing agrarian settlements. In towns like [[Burford]] in Oxfordshire and [[Chipping Campden]] in Gloucestershire, [[Bromyard]] in Herefordshire, and [[Cricklade]] in Wiltshire, the property on the road frontage extends in a very long garden plot behind the dwelling even today, as English property boundaries have remained very stable.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} In [[South Zeal]], in Devon, burgage plots were known as "borough acres".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110908152254/http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/42396/laf-szburgage.pdf http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/42396/laf-szburgage.pdf]</ref>
The basic unit of measurement was the [[Pole (length)|perch]] which was {{convert|5.5
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.
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