BORROWBY is a township and straggling village, partly in the wapentake of Allertonshire and partly in that of Birdforth, 5 miles south-east from Northallerton and 3 ½ north-east from Otterington station, on the York and Darlington branch of the North Eastern railway; in the centre of the place stands an ancient but mutilated market cross of stone. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1879, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1882. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and Captain Montagu W. W. P. Consett R.N. is the chief landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The acreage is 1,272 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £2,348; the population in 1911 was 350.

THE GUELDABLE is that part of Borrowby township which stands in the wapentake and petty sessional division of Birdforth, and is entirely freehold; it is 5 miles south-east from Northallerton, and was annexed to Borrowby by Local Government Board Order, 22,257, March 24, 1888.