Borrowby, North Riding

Description
Borrowby, a township in Leake parish, in the N. R. Yorkshire, 5 miles N of Thirsk, the nearest railway station. It has a post office under Thirsk, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Thornton-le-Moor. Acreage, 1272; population, 392. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5