36 listed buildings

Stone alignment west of Boroughbridge known as the Devil's Arrows, including three standing stones and the setting for a fourthScheduled monumentChurch of St JamesGrade II listedThe CottageGrade II listedBoroughbridge HallGrade II listed3 Shops Owned by Binns and Boroughbridge LaundryGrade II listed+2See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1914

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 25 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Stone alignment west of Boroughbridge known as the Devil's Arrows, including three standing stones and the setting for a fourth

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Darley Waddilove

Isabella Bird

George Freeman

Clare Wilson

Archie Cecil Thomas White

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Isabella Bird1831–1904 · British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)

George Freeman1843–1895 · English county cricketer (1843-1895)

Archie Cecil Thomas White1890–1971 · English military officer (1890–1971); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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Clare Wilson1886–1917 · English professional footballer (fl. 1907-8)

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Darley Waddilove1736–1828 · Archdeacon of the East Riding; Dean of Ripon; English Anglican priest

Everyone born in Boroughbridge → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 36 listed buildings in Boroughbridge, including Stone alignment west of Boroughbridge known as the Devil's Arrows, including three standing stones and the setting for a fourth. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Isabella Bird (1831), George Freeman (1843) and Archie Cecil Thomas White (1890) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1984, when 25 of the 36 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.