Borrowby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated in the North York Moors National Park, inland but near the coast, between Whitby and Saltburn-by-the-Sea. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 50 in 2014. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Roxby and Newton Mulgrave parishes and not counted separately. According to the 2001 UK census, Borrowby parish had a population of 56.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Scarborough, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The name Borrowby derives from the Old English berg meaning 'tumulus' and the Old Norse bȳ meaning 'village'.
See also Listed buildings in Borrowby, east North Yorkshire
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