BORROWASH is a village in Ockbrook parish, with a station on the Midland railway, 4 miles east from Derby and 130 from London. The mission church of St. Stephen was erected 1889—90, at a cost of about £1,100, the foundation stone being laid by Mrs. Robert Lethbridge Farmer, November, 1889, and the church opened by the Bishop of Southwell in Sept. 1890: it is of brick with stone facings and has a chancel screen and pulpit of wrought iron exquisitely designed and over 200 years old, the gift of E. H. Pares esq. J.P. who also gave the site for the church, which affords 200 sittings. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. At Shackle-cross, to the east, there is a water and steam flour mill, now disused.

National School (mixed), erected in 1840, at the expense of the Rev. Samuel Hey, & enlarged in 1894, for 160 boys & girls & 120 infants; average attendance, 150 boys & girls & 110 infants.