Borrowby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Borrowby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Breck
- Brotton
- Caldenesche
The Meaning of the Name
The name Borrowby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Borrowby.
Listed Buildings Near Borrowby
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Borrowby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Low Borrowby Farmhouse - 0.27 km
- Barn, Byres and Stables North of Low Borrowby Farmhouse - 0.27 km
- Barns, Byres and Cart Shed North of Borrowby Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Borrowby Farmhouse - 0.54 km
- Ivy Cottage - 0.58 km
- America House and Barn Adjoining to West - 0.64 km
- Barn and Gin-gang to South East of America House - 0.7 km
- Barn, Stable and Byres to North of Grasshill House - 0.71 km
- Grasshill House - 0.71 km
- Blacksmiths Shop at Turton Cottages - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Borrowby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Borrowby:
- Long barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 250m east of Birchdale House - 1.15 km
- Newton Mulgrave medieval settlement - 1.21 km
- Round barrow 330m south west of Newton Brow - 1.49 km
- Round barrow 180m west of Newton Brow - 1.5 km
Borrowby Today
Today Borrowby lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 52 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Borrowby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Grimesbi - 0.0 km N
- Newton Mulgrave - 1.0 km E
- Roxby - 1.4 km NW
- Ellerby - 2.2 km SE
- Seaton Hall - 2.2 km NE
- Arnodestorp - 2.8 km NE
Heritage Around Borrowby
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Chris Twigg · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Donnylad · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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