BOROUGHBRIDGE, market town, West Riding of York shire, England, 2 2m. N.W. of York on a branch of the L.N.E. railway. Pop. (1931) 862. It lies in the central plain of York shire on the river Ure near its confluence with the Swale. About m. to the west of Boroughbridge are three prehistoric monoliths known as the Devil's Arrows.
When the site of the Great North Road was altered, towards the end of the I i th century, a bridge was built across the Ure, and called Burgh bridge or Ponteburgem. This caused a village to spring up, and it afterwards increased so much as to become a market town. It was deeply concerned in the war with Scot land in the early 14th century and a battle was fought here in 1322. In 1504 the bailiff and inhabitants of Boroughbridge re ceived a grant of two fairs, and Charles II. created three new fairs in the borough. It has maintained its agricultural interests. Boroughbridge is in the Ripon parliamentary division.