| There has come down to us in a sadly degenerate form a document which we shall hereafter call The burghal Hidage. |
| Many small towns survive around the east and northeast coast that were once obliged to be self-contained in consumer industries and burghal institutions because they lacked adequate transportation systems. |
| This is proved by The burghal Hidage of which we spoke above, p. 187, and shall speak again hereafter. |
| To maintain the burhs, and the standing army, he set up a taxation system known as the Burghal Hidage. |
| Alfred's burghal system was revolutionary in its strategic conception and potentially expensive in its execution. |
| In Gloucestershire is Gloucester, but Winchcombe also asserts its burghal rank. |
