Place:Borrowby (near Thirsk), North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Borrowby has been since 1974 a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated halfway between Thirsk and Northallerton, about 25 miles (40 km) 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 York Moors to the east and the Yorkshire Dales to the west. This exposed location has always been good for growing orchards as the hill tops escaped the glacial debris and cannot be reached by the flood plains of the river, the Cod Beck.

Borrowby was once part of the ancient parish of Leake, which is further north, and in the first half of the 19th century there was an extensive manufacture of linen.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Borrowby was located in Northallerton Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Leake in the Allerton Wapentake.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Borrowby, Hambleton.

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