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Just did a search on google and interestingly middlesbrough is spelt just as much middlesborough as middlesbrough. Not sure which one is right.

I always have spelt it personally middlesborough.

One of the definitions in the dictionary for borough is

"A medieval group of fortified houses that formed a town having special privileges and rights. "

I remember the difficulty of learning how to spell Edinburgh when I was a kid. I wonder if Edinburgh was in fact actually edinborough but it got misspelt in the days before spelling was standardised. You know hundreds of years ago people didnt have dictionaries and they spelt things as they sounded.

Brough is not in the dictionary.

The reason i am focusing on the ending of the name is because some places have these common endings i.e shire