The borough was organised with a burgage franchise, meaning that the inhabitants of designated houses ( burgage tenements ) had the right to vote.
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The borough was organised with a burgage franchise, meaning that the inhabitants of designated houses ( burgage tenements ) had the right to vote.
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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.
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There was early burgage development along Monnow Street, and the suburb of Overmonnow, west of the river, began to develop by the 12th century.
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Grampound's linear layout is of Norman origin, with long thin burgage plots extending away from the main street, Fore Street ( A390 ).
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Until 1783, Pontefract was a burgage borough, where the right to vote was attached to the holders of about 325 specified properties in the borough.
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Defeated in 1774, when Charles James Fox stood as one of their candidates, they petitioned against the result, but the Commons upheld the burgage franchise.
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Burgage tenements were rental properties that were often long and narrow plots of land, particularly in towns where frontage property along a street was at a premium.
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The surviving burgage plot layout is the result of a comprehensive plan carried out in the beginning of the 13th century, most probably instigated by Geoffrey fitz Peter.
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Newtown was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was vested solely in the owners of a specified number of properties or " burgage tenements ".
