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Borrowby is a village in the
Hambleton district of
North Yorkshire,
England. It is situated halfway between
Thirsk and
Northallerton, about 25 miles north of
York, in an area called the
Vale of Mowbray, a low-lying agricultural landscape shaped by the last glaciation, that lies between two national parks, the
North Yorkshire Moors to the east and the
Yorkshire Dales to the west.
Borrowby is one of the so-called Hillside Villages and can be found towards the eastern fringe of the vale where the land begins to rise to the moors. The village is said to be of Danish origin (ending –by) when it was some kind of
stronghold. It was then mentioned in the
Domesday survey of 1086 and other early records under various spellings of 'Berghby' meaning 'village on a hill'. This exposed location has always been good for growing orchards as the hill tops escaped the glacial debris and can't be reached by the flood plains of the river, the
Cod Beck. Borrowby was once part of the parish of
Leake, which is further north, and in the first half of the 19th century there was an extensive manufacture of
linen. Since 1978 the village has been a
conservation area.
The village grew in a linear form along the main road sloping upwards to the north. It is characteristic, that to the front the buildings are separated by a broad grass verge to the main road and the backs of the properties are associated with the adjoining long plots that are accessed via a back lane. A triangular street formation divides High Borrowby from Low Borrowby and acts as a village green and centre with a pub (
the Wheatsheaf Inn
), post office and church. On the village green there's an old cross which is said to have marked some kind of border between Borrowby and the town of Gueldable, at a time when both townships were completely intermixed.
It is clear that the structure and character of the village have not significantly changed to this day, though some original cottages have been replaced by more modern versions and gaps between the buildings have been filled. There used to be a
Primitive Methodist Chapel but today only the
Methodist Church remains. On many of the old buildings traces of lime wash that coated the sandstone facades are still visible.
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