An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain to prohibit the formation of new joint-stock companies unless approved by royal charter.
Buckland B3
Three-wheeler car designed and built by Dick Buckland from 1985 until 1999.
Built-up area
Categorisation of UK census data that corresponds more closely to the traditional towns, villages and cities that people associate with where they live than do the administrative boundaries.
Burial Act 1852
Act of parliament to prohibit burials in the metropolis of London.
Burke and Hare murders
Series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.
Burmantofts Pottery
Major producer of decorated tiles and architectural ceramics in Yorkshire.
Burning of women in England
Burning was a legal punishment imposed on women found guilty of high treason, petty treason or heresy. Over a period of several centuries, female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake, sometimes alive, for a range of activities including coining and mariticide.
Burning wells
Phenomenon known in the area around Wigan in Lancashire from at least the 17th century.
Burnley Coalfield
Most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield, surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington.
Burns Cottage
Birthplace of Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scotland's national poet.
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