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What (who) is burgage - definition
![The closes (passageways) off [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Royal Mile]] follow the lines of the old burgage plots](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tron Kirk surroundings.JPG?width=200 "The closes (passageways) off [[Edinburgh]]'s [[Royal Mile]] follow the lines of the old burgage plots")
Wikipedia
Burgage is a 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 (Scots: toft), with a narrow street frontage. Rental payment ("tenure") was usually in the form of money, but each "burgage tenure" arrangement was unique and could include services.
As populations grew "burgage plots" could be split into smaller additional units. (Amalgamation was not so common until the second half of the 19th century.)
Burgage tenures were usually money-based, in contrast to rural tenures, which were usually services-based. In Saxon times the rent was called a landgable or hawgable.
